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Annons För den som har ambition att berätta sanningen om klimatkrisen, blir det snabbt uppenbart att ord spelar roll. Klimatförändringar är trögt, krypande, hanterbart. Klimatkrisen är här och nu, drastisk, minerad med kända och okända tröskeleffekter. En ny tid kräver ett nytt språk. Klimatkrisen. Upphettning, inte uppvärmning. Men du kan inte bara berätta med ord. En tidning är också bilder. Dagens ETC hämtar huvudsakligen sina från TT som i sin tur erbjuder de stora nyhetsbyråernas flöden. Så vad finns att välja på när en extrem värmebölja, som härom veckan, sä...

  Oil giant ExxonMobil’s 12-member board of directors reportedly has two new members who are climate activists backed by investor “Engine 1.”                Under the headline, “Shareholders tell Exxon to eat sh*t,” G/O Media and Earther “reporter” Molly Taft gleefully ends paragraph 1 with, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!?” The widely read journalist explained that “The bigger boys in the room [notably financial giant BlackRock] decided to play along,” prompting “panicked” Exxon officials to pause voting, but ...

Seth Klein says a just transition would see people in the fossil fuel industry have jobs in the new renewable industries.

It is an extraordinary proposal: 12-storey rental housing extensively in Vancouver, with no public hearings. Under the guise of expanding the supply of “social housing,” Vancouver council is hearing a motion this week from councillor Christine Boyle – backed by mayor Kennedy Stewart – that would unleash a divisive remake of the community. Forget that the proposal would suffocate public hearings when development is proposed. Forget that the proposal would override zoning that took years of negotiations to define. Forget that the proposal doubles down on a move only last month by co...

Seth Klein approaches the challenge of the climate crisis as A Good War, the title of his new book. He refers to C.D. Howe, our Canadian minister of everything during the Second World War who revamped government, harnessed industry and ensured that Canada was well equipped to fight Hitler. Klein argues the Canadian government could similarly fight rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are expected to devastate all countries. Some have hesitated to compare the Second World War to the climate crisis because it evolved slowly over the span of industrialization, and although the climate ...