Yesterday in a surprise announcement at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, the United States and China introduced a shared pledge to boost their cooperation on climate change. The jointly unveiled U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s commits both countries to a series of actions related…

As global leaders convene this week in Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the stakes could not be higher. COP26 comes less than ten years away from the often cited deadline of 2030 for the world to have reached a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. U.S…

As the 2021 Canadian federal election campaign comes to a close, parties are winding down their online canvassing for election day. In the months to come, there will be many post mortems and analysis of what worked and what didn’t this time around. National campaigns in the digital age leave…

Years ago in graduate school, one of my English literature seminars was treated to a peculiar presentation. The course was Energy and the Environment, and our professor decided to invite a climate activist friend of his to help connect our high minded material to the real world. Only a few…

As I read through Carlos Lozada’s journey through the major titles of the ‘Trump Era’ in What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump, one book stood out to me: Angela Nagle’s 2017 book Kill All Normies. Amongst the diatribes of RussiaGate and Rust Belt anthropological studies…

The MicroStrategy CEO has a checkered past and complex motives. Accept him for what he is: a hype man. If you’ve been following the crypto space since the beginning of the latest 2020 bull run, you’ve no doubt encountered Michael Saylor. The bombastic, square jawed tech CEO has appeared on…

Now that we have finally entered what will (hopefully) be called the ‘post Trump era,’ I decided to take the time to read the seminal work of what closed out the ‘pre’ Trump era, Hillary Clinton’s election post-mortem, What Happened. What Happened is the first book by Clinton that I’ve…

Bill C-12 fails to confront the essence of what drives Canadian emissions: growth. November 2020 marks a momentous month in the Canadian fight against climate change. Parliament has officially tabled what will be the country’s most ambitious climate change law to date, Bill C-12. If passed, the C-12, known as…

Remember the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head during the debate last night? So fun! Have you followed the official VP Debate Fly Twitter account yet? Nice to have a little break from the seriousness of our current moment, huh? It’s really not nice, actually. You only have a…