Earth Day is celebrated yearly on April 22nd as a demonstration of support for the environment. First observed in 1970, primarily in the United States, the 50th anniversary celebration in 2020 mobilized over 100 million people around the world. On the face of it, there have been many significant environmentally progressive accomplishments since the first…
Author: Tim Louis
Disability Activism has Changed Worlds
On Friday April 22nd, I will be hosting a virtual presentation of the documentary Crip Camp. You can register to attend here. The doors will open at 6:30pm and the presentation will start at 7pm. Crip Camp describes the experience in the 1970s of a group of teenage campers who happened to have disabilities, and…
Latest IPCC Report on the Climate Crisis
On Monday April 4th 2022 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the climate crisis facing humanity — Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Echoing its February 28th 2022 report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, this IPCC report is an emergency call for immediate, dramatic reductions in…
2030 Emission Reductions Plan
On March 29th 2022 the federal government released its 2030 Emission Reductions Plan. At first blush, the Plan appears to be significant, some might even say aggressive. However, given recent warnings from the world scientific community, I am very disappointed. First, the good news – there are some positive commitments in the new federal Plan,…
Where is the Peace in Israel-Palestine? – presented by Robert Massoud
On Friday, March 25th I’m hosting my monthly virtual gathering. The session will open at 6:30pm and the presentation will start at 7pm. To learn more and to register, click here. This month’s gathering – Where is the Peace in Israel-Palestine? – will be presented by Robert Massoud. He has a wealth of information with…
The War and the Environment
Chris Hedges is one of my favourites, if not my very favourite writer. Not just because he is brilliantly effective at using language to convey meanings but perhaps more importantly because of his political analysis. Today my partner, Penny, forwarded to me his March 14th, 2022, article Waltzing Towards Armageddon with the Merchants of Death….
A Dire Warning
On Monday March 7th as I watched Paul Jay’s podcast, A Dire Warning About the End of Human Civilization, on theAnalysis.news website, my worst fears were confirmed – the climate crisis is order of magnitude more catastrophic than we have come to believe. It is now no longer a question of whether or not we…