1. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
2. Arctic Death Rattle
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The warming of the Arctic negatively affects the entire Northern Hemisphere by altering jet streams at 30,000-40,000 feet altitude, which turns normal weather patterns upside down, wreaking havoc throughout the hemisphere. Even more significantly, loss of Arctic ice exposes the planet to risks of a crushing blow to the planetary ecosystem, without warning.
3. As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
4. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
5. A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
6. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
7. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
   A Guide to Selected Resources
   Resource Type: Article
   
8. Capitalism is failing the planet
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
9. The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
10. Climate change: It's going to take a revolution 
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2015
    A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it's going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations.
11. Climate Change Solutions The Big Switch
    New Internationalist June 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at global warming, what it is doing to the world, and what actions are being taken by people to slow it down.
12. Climate Cover-Up 
    The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
13. Climate Crisis - The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We find that Britain and the US - the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya - are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
14. Climate Crisis, the Deindustrialization Imperative and the Jobs vs. Environment Dilemma 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    So long as we live under capitalism, today, tomorrow, next year and every year thereafter, economic growth will always be the overriding priority till we barrel right off the cliff to collapse.
15. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
16. Conned, Carbon offsets stripped bare
    New Internationalist July 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    Discussion of the myths about carbon offsets, and details of more positive climate change steps to take. Carbon offsetting is exposed as a scam, one that's been sold to the guilt-ridden general public as an easy answer to a complex problem.
17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
18. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
19. Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
20. Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
21. A Death Sentence For Africa
    The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
22. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
23. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change.
24. Doubt is their Product
    How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides our regulatory policy.
25. Earning a Profit from Global Warming
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
26. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
27. $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
    Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Despite pledging in 2009 to phase out public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, G20 countries have disregarded those promises and are currently spending $88 billion a year in taxpayer money to fund the discovery of new gas, coal, and oil deposits around the world.
28. Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
29. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
30. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
31. Essential reading on the Paris climate agreement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An annotated guide to thirty-four of the best articles on the COP21 Paris Agreement on climate change published in the immediate aftermath of the agreement.
32. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
33. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
34. Fantasy technology won't stop climate change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Climate negotiators are promising 'negative emissions' using a risky and unproven technology called BECSS. It's the wrong way to go.
35. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
36. Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
37. The Global Fight for Climate Justice
    Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2010
    A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming.
38. Global Warming
    The Greenpeace Report
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
39. Global Warning...Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
40. A Great Aridness
    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States.
41. Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years.
42. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
43. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
    Dispatches from the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
44. How green are your ethics?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
    
45. How will we get to an ecological civilization?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
46. The Ice Melts Into Water
    Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just a few decades from now. Some scientists say it may happen within the next few years.
47. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
48. India's killer heatwave - a deadly warning of the world we face, without climate action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As delegates prepare for the Bonn climate talks, India is being struck by extreme heat with a long-delayed monsoon season and a death toll of thousands. If this is an indicator of the warming world to come, it's giving us all the reasons we could possibly want to act decisively before it's too late.
49. The Inquisition of Climate Science
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. Lawrence Powell's book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.
50. Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
51. The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
52. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands 
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
53. Keep it in the Ground
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A campaign by The Guardian newspaper to stop climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground, featuring a series of articles on different aspects of the issue across the world.
54. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
55. Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
56. A Line in the Tar Sands
    Struggles for Environmental Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
57. Looking for Trouble
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can't afford to use existing reserves?
58. The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
59. Nature, science & power
    Questions need to be asked...
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2014
    Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
60. The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
    Resource Type: Book
    
61. Nuclear Power: Nuclear's second wind
    New Internationalist September 2005
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A look at the return of the use of nuclear power and why. Discussion of the history of the effects of nuclear power in the past.
62. Opinion: It's gettin' hot in here... so take back all your carbon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In Africa rapidly rising temperatures foreshadow increased drought, famine and disease. The most vulnerable populations -- of which millions are smallholder farmers -- need solutions, and they need them now.
63. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
    Climate Change and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
64. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
    Working class organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
65. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
    Workers and Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
    Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
66. Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein
    Climate, Capitialism and the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The lesson that Naomi Klein overlooks seems clear. Climate chaos is just one DEVASTATING symptom of our dysfunctional society. To survive catabolic capitalism and germinate an alternative, movement activists will have to anticipate and help people respond to multiple crises while organizing them to recognize and root out their source.
67. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
68. Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
69. Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
    New Internationalist November 1998
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1998
    Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
70. The Rising Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
71. Science and its enemies
    Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
72. Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
73. Social justice is the only solution to global warming
    The Climate is Ripe for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    South African activist says only an alliance between unions and social justice movements can stop capital from destroying planetary life.
74. 'Stable' NE Greenland ice sheet is melting away
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A new study has found that the NE section of the Greenland ice sheet - thought to be stable due to the extreme cold - has been losing ice since 2006 with increasing speed. And that has huge implications for global sea level rise.
75. Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
76. Stop Signs
    Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
77. Stupid to the Last Drop
    How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
78. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
79. This Changes Everything 
    Capitalism vs the Climate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
80. This Changes Everything 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
81. This Is About Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
82. Transition Initiatives Primer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
83. The Unpersuadables
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
84. Viva Yasuni! Life vs Big Oil
    New Internationalist July 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at the Yasuni rainforest in Ecuador and its imminent destruction by oil companies.
85. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
86. What's at stake in Copenhagen
    The crucial debates at Copenhagen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
87. Who Speaks for the Climate?
    Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
88. Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles 
    Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
89. Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
    Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
90. Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    To judge by many accounts of climate change, the twenty-first century will gradually become a warmer, stormier, and less biodiverse version of the twentieth. There's an unspoken assumption that the Anthropocene will be less pleasant than the Holocene, but not fundamentally different, and that the transition will be smooth.
91. Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
92. The World Without Us 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    

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