Chris Turner | The Walrus

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019December 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

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

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.

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

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

Environment

Climate’s Prom

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

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

Feature / November 2015

Tilting at Windmills

November 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

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

Photograph from Catherine McKenna’s Twitter feed

Politics

The Climate Change Cabinet

November 5, 2015September 24, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Reality comes to the environment file

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

Sports

The Journeyman

October 27, 2015August 21, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Chris Colabello kept fouling off baseball’s bad breaks until he got a pitch he could hit