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Canadian philosopher, Marshall McLuhan, predicting the internet in 1966 during a CBC interview.
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Capilano University archaeologist @BobMuckle on the discovery of Japanese pre-internment artefacts from the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.
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Woah! That was a terrifying experience driving the #coquihalla, just north of Britton Creek. I’m shaking! 😱💔 We made it through just as they were stopping southbound traffic @DriveBC #bcwildfires #Kamloops 7pm August 15, 2021 – at Merritt, British Columbia
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Not easy writing about climate without using the words “unprecedented” or “record-setting,” but I almost pulled it off.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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The world may be barreling towards climate disaster but rapidly eliminating planet-heating emissions means global temperatures could stabilize within just a couple of decades.
All is not lost, we need to double down our efforts to decarbonise.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Imagine getting to be alive during the vanishingly thin slice of history where we understand the full gravity of the climate crisis and still have time to do something about it.
Feeling grateful, fired up and ready to do the damn thing.
“Practical, funded and deliverable plans [by governments] to keep us below the supposedly safe limits [of heating] are almost non-existent. Urgent climate action was needed decades ago – now we’re almost out of time.”
theguardian.com/environment/…
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now | Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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It's been 27 days now with no rain for Vancouver. And temps continue to run above seasonal next few days. A low pressure system finally looks to drop down the coast for Friday coming w a chance of showers. Poor air quality and fresh heat warnings for the BC Interior. – at North Vancouver, British Columbia
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In @nytopinion: “Tourism should not return to anything like its old, profligate normal,” @fmanjoo writes. “The pandemic has presented the world with an opportunity to reset how we tour this planet, and we should reach for it.” nyti.ms/3xvjGjI
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Likely not intentional, but see this normalization of disaster:
1.5 C warming portrayed as safe
2 C warming portrayed as moderate
Only 3 C portrayed as truly bad
Like normalizing "small scale" nuclear war, this is a dangerous path.
The difference between 1.5°C, 2°C or 3-4°C average global warming can sound marginal.
In fact, they represent vastly different scenarios for the future of humanity.
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#ClimateEmergency
“We thought we knew what was going on … Then this heatwave came which was way above the upper bound. With the knowledge of last year this was impossible. This was surprising and shaking.” theguardian.com/science/2021…
The Canadian government’s proposed plastic ban barely scratches the surface. They must expand the ban list to stop harmful single-use plastics polluting our oceans. Join me & @OceanaCAN calling on @JonathanWNV & @JustinTrudeau to #EndThePlasticDisaster. bit.ly/2Yl6luw
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Let me get this straight - 700+ people died in BC because of the heat wave, a village burst into flames after breaking temperature records 3 days in a row, the ocean caught on fire, & governments aren't starting a WWII-style mobilization to create a healthy & just future?
wtf.
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In the midst of an unprecedented "heat dome" Eriel Deranger considers Canada's colonial responses to the climate crisis - structurally excluding Indigenous people - and advocates for a future defined by genuine inclusion and Indigenous leadership:
yellowheadinstitute.org/2021…
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"Climate change," Ian Culbert, executive director of the Canadian Public Health Association, wrote in the report's introduction, "is an escalating public health emergency, and we need to start treating it that way." buff.ly/2UmMZGw
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“Consciously or not, our tendency to register unpleasant and frightening information intellectually, while holding it at bay emotionally, is one way we defend ourselves from the fear and discomfort caused by what is happening all around us, right now.”theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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The news about Lytton is really getting to me. Not just that the town burned to the ground, that people lost everything, that animals were left behind, but everything that is happening in the world right now led to this. This is the reality of “back to normal”. I am losing hope.
