Canada's Orgy of Centrist Hypocrisy (664)

Canada's Orgy of Centrist Hypocrisy (664)

Justin Trudeau has approved the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline a day after declaring a ‘climate emergency’. We look at various perspectives on TMX and the climate crisis and discuss Grassy Narrows, the dangers of environment reporting, and justice in the context of the Green New Deal.

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Canada Will Be Left Behind (657)

Canada Will Be Left Behind (657)

We outline the serious bad kind of funk that Canada will be submerged in if we don’t get our act together on climate change. Topics include Jeremy Corbyn, terrorism charges for pipeline protestors, new tar sands regulation, the secession of Alberta, trees, and burning plastic.

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We Actually All Need to Think About How to Live Differently (652)

We Actually All Need to Think About How to Live Differently (652)

Starting again with the continuing disaster of Cyclone Idai and our global justice catastrophe, we analyze the environmental movement from a social justice lens, then turn to the oil industry and our increasingly monopolized food systems. We end with an interview with Aube Giroux, the documentarian behind the new film, Modified.

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The Kids Will Destroy This World (644)

The Kids Will Destroy This World (644)

We discuss the ongoing Wet’suwet’en defence of their unceded lands in northern British Columbia and other Canadian oil issues. We also interview Power Shift organizer and regular contributor Lauren Latour about the youth climate conference in Ottawa in February.

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'We Have to Act Like We're Fighting a War' (628)

'We Have to Act Like We're Fighting a War' (628)

We take a long look at the new UN IPCC report that is sweeping the headlines and its implications for the future of human organization. We then turn to the review process for the largest ever oil sands mine proposed for Alberta, and end with a talk about Hurricane Michael.

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