Yves here. The Department of Defense started warning in the early 2000s that global warming would generate destabilizing mass migrations. But Americans like to [think] this sort of thing happens in poor countries near the equator, or coastal Florida. But a new book by Jake Bittle argues that the Great Displacement is coming here too.
This dire forecast may be overly pessimistic. Unfortunately, it's consistent with the continuing history of market economics blocking most attempts at increasing social-economic planning.
City sweeps on East Hastings are a cruel, costly and counter-productive spectacle
Less than six months into their term in office Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC majority have made clear their vision for Vancouver: more police, less justice. More inequality, less compassion.
As corporations build fossil fuel infrastructure despite protests, we must take the tactic of sabotage seriously.
The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced.
The Alberta government waited a month before calling an emergency response to one of the biggest releases of oilsands tailings in the province's history, a leaked document shows.
Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.
