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Canada’s climate solution? Keep increasing fossil fuel extraction
Despite decades of failing, Canada is once again promising big emissions cuts even as it expands fossil fuel production. Has any nation pulled it off? Here's what I found when I went looking.
Boats are going electric and they are quiet
The auto industry has raced ahead on an electric wave with more manufacturers joining the race seemingly every day.
New book series celebrates voices behind green movement
Penguin's Green Ideas series begins with 20 short books by writers from Rachel Carson to Greta Thunberg, which it calls "the classics that made a movement."
Heavy European floods claim more than 20 lives
More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing on Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.
These graphics show how the world is racing towards climate failure
The primary fuel of the climate crisis — CO2 in our atmosphere — continues to accelerate upwards, unchecked by decades of Earth Days, climate summits and even a global pandemic. Barry Saxifrage shows us where we are now, globally and in Canada.
Note to wealthy people: your carbon footprint matters more
A new book pushes back against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate.
Youth activists shut down Bay Street, demanding climate promises be kept
Young activists blocked traffic in the heart of Toronto’s financial district for hours on Friday as part of a global action demanding governments take more drastic steps to curb carbon emissions.
Do we need more scary climate change articles? Maybe
“You can’t just sit around waiting for hope to come,” Greta Thunberg told European leaders in 2019. “Then you are acting like spoiled, irresponsible children. You don’t seem to understand that hope is something that you have to earn.”
This young activist rallied Toronto students to strike against climate change
The pandemic has shifted student activist efforts online, but the movement is alive and well, organizer Aliénor Rougeot tells Patricia Lane.
How about less patronizing, more positive reinforcement in COVID-19 messaging in 2021?
"I wonder if there is not a risk that people are tiring of the standard COVID-19 messaging. How do we encourage positive behaviour, even as the situation becomes more dire?" author and consultant Ingrid Stefanovic asks.
Greta Thunberg blasts leaders as 'hypocrites' over climate crisis
Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead but flinch when immediate action is needed, the teen climate activist says.
Film reviews: Rebecca remade, Greta Thunberg in action and how Trump bungled COVID-19
Also: A tangled romance in Hong Kong and two other tales that inspire.
Make 2020 the year of peak car
Car sales are declining globally and the real “peak car” moment (when the number of vehicles in operation stops increasing and starts a permanent decline) could also be near.