Climate Change | The Walrus

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Environment / First Person

Parenting Through an Apocalypse

March 17, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Liz Harmer

What stories can we tell our children to help them face the world they will inherit?

A congregation sits on the roof of a building while the water rises up to the roof level. In front of the seated group is a preacher in a robe, with his arms raised toward the sky.

April 2020 / Environment

Do Christian Churches Care About the Climate Crisis?

March 9, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Josiah Neufeld

Movements like The Wild Church hope to heal the relationship between humans, their god, and the planet

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Business / Environment

How to Enlist Corporate Leaders in the Climate Fight

March 4, 2020 - by Tom Rand

Energy companies helped cause the climate crisis. Now, they need to become part of the solution

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Environment

The World’s Last Rainforests Are Under Threat

February 5, 2020March 26, 2020 - by Jimmy Thomson

A $25 million carbon-offset project is struggling to find buyers, and the Great Bear Rainforest is on the line

Jason Kenney speaks at a conference in November 2019.

Politics

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

January 14, 2020March 6, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The province’s failure to consider climate risk may lose it billions in global investment

Books / January/February 2020

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession With the End of the World

January 9, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Damian Tarnopolsky

We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures

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Society

A Future Without Butter

December 4, 2019December 10, 2019 - by Lenore Newman

Ecological collapse is threatening food systems that have existed for centuries

Environment / November 2019

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

Environment / October 2019

What to Read When the World is On Fire

September 23, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

The new wave of climate change writing

Illustration Juxtaposing an Image of a Thread of Cloth in the Laundry Room Against the Same Thread Polluting the Ocean

April 2018 / Environment

How Our Clothing Poisons the Environment

March 20, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Tina Knezevic

Microfibres are the scourge of our waterways. One man in Nova Scotia says he has a solution