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My op-ed in the National Observer today

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The National Observer published my op-ed on corporate media’s coverage of the climate crisis. It’s part of a lead-up to a media action at noon September 17 at Broad and Pandora in Victoria, BC.  Here’s the link to the piece: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/09/04/opinion/media-can-no-longer-deny-climate-emergency  

The Science of Dumbing Down

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A terrific piece in The New York Times this weekend by Bill McKibben—my pick for America’s best candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize—on why the White House isn’t just launching short-term damage to earth, but, as McKibben concludes “Trumpism will persist, a dark stratum in the planet’s geological history.  In some awful sense, his term […]

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