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Chris Turner

Chris Turner is the author of The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He is based in Calgary.
Planet earth stands in front of an empty United Nations general assembly hall.
Environment

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue

June 24, 2022 - by Chris Turner

Misunderstanding the nature of the peril humanity faces is one reason climate politics has been so prone to frustration and despair

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A globe sitting in a white puddle.
Environment / November 2019

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019March 29, 2021 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

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Photograph by Kris Krüg
Books

The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise

September 19, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Chris Turner

We’ve turned the oil industry into an ideological war zone—and that is why both sides are losing

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Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Environment

Fort McMurray is a humanitarian disaster

May 20, 2016December 7, 2020 - by Chris Turner

It’s sadly ironic that the city had to empty out in an emergency for the rest of Canada to come to properly understand it.

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Vancouver Skyline
Environment

Salvation or Menace

March 7, 2016March 10, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Pipelines hung like a dark cloud over the Globe 2016 conference, but the issue should go more than two ways

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Photograph courtesy of the Province of British Columbia
Environment

Carbon Copies

March 4, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Chris Turner

Why those who work on climate change full-time are more optimistic than the Ottawa press about the provinces’ new climate deal

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Photograph courtesy of the Province of British Columbia
Environment

Climate’s Prom

March 3, 2016October 23, 2019 - by Chris Turner

At this year’s Globe sustainability conference, Trudeau brings a new energy

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Illustration of windmills against a black background.
November 2015

Tilting at Windmills

November 14, 2015April 9, 2022 - by Chris Turner

Canada’s most ambitious green energy plan failed—but not for the reason everybody thinks

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Photograph from Catherine McKenna’s Twitter feed
Politics

The Climate Change Cabinet

November 5, 2015September 13, 2021 - by Chris Turner

Reality comes to the environment file

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Environment

Do Alberta’s Oil Sands Figure Into a Sustainable Future?

November 2, 2015November 26, 2019 - by Chris Turner

The future will look like the current mess

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