Archive for the 'Environmental Justice' Category

Justified Civil Disobedience and Illegitimate Governments

Saturday, June 11th, 2011 by thwap

I’ve said before that the environment isn’t my main focus. I hate camping. I hate flies and mosquitoes. I like cities, books, bars, … that sort of thing. Then there’s the science. It’s all I’ve got to grasp political-economy, … were someone to come up with some scholarly paper about soil depletion, global warming, ocean […]

Canadian Democracy: Bought n’ Paid For

Monday, July 12th, 2010 by thwap

And if you ain’t got no money nobody gives a shit what you think anyway!
Disturbing, disturbing, highly disturbing stuff from Alison at Creekside and the passionately anti-NDP Eugene Forsey. It seems that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment has decided to shred all the evidence from its past six meetings and all the […]

Economic Development and Saving the Environment in Ecuador

Thursday, August 9th, 2007 by elmateo

Canadians should know all about the environmental damage extracting oil from the ground can cause. After all we have the Alberta tar-sands, an extraction process which spews a lot of extra carbon into the air, making our Kyoto commitments “impossible” according to our government. These kinds of decisions are ridiculous in a country as wealthy […]

Conservatives Create Green Smokescreen

Monday, January 22nd, 2007 by TS.

All through this week, the Conservative government has been occupied in busily painting itself Green. But like most slapdash jobs, they have done a bad job of it. The government seeks to convince the people that it is truly concerned about global climate change, and is taking action to fix it. That is just a […]