According to Suzuki, industry profiteering and volatile fossil fuel markets affect affordability far more than carbon pricing.
Are politicians in denial? Suzuki points out that some cite biblical prophecy about the “end times” as an excuse to ignore the emergency.
Against a backdrop of global conflict, volatile fossil fuel markets, and extreme weather events, the IEA’s World Energy Outlook offers hope.
Suzuki urges people to look up and realize that with common sense, evidence, action, love, and compassion, we could continue to have it all.
The industry largely responsible for turning up the heat is doubling down on efforts to keep record profits rolling.
Mutually beneficial automobile and fossil fuel industries built their fortunes in a systemic way, according to rules of capitalism.
Asking taxpayers to subsidize carbon capture and storage is one oil and gas industry ploy to profit, no matter the planetary consequences.
This month marks another round of global youth climate strikes. Young folks are demanding a “rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels”.
A Canadian environmentalist admires young folks—but he doesn’t envy them because older generations are leaving them a hell of a mess.
Drought and floods, which are both a product of global heating, can degrade soil, making it less fertile for agriculture.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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