Greta Thunberg: “Our politicians will not come to the rescue of planet Earth”: In 2009 countries in the developed world promised
to provide $100bn a year by 2020 to help poorer countries adapt to the
impact of the climate crisis. Nearly three years after that deadline,
even this inadequate commitment has not been honoured.

We should abandon the illusion that our politicians will come to the
rescue of planet Earth, especially those who delight in calling
themselves climate leaders. Time and again they have betrayed the faith
that has been placed in them – using greenwashing and PR strategies
disguised as politics.

But we cannot despair: the way we see and talk about the climate and
ecology crisis has shifted. A critical mass of people – especially
younger people – are demanding change and will no longer tolerate the
procrastination, denial and complacency that created this state of
emergency. I believe in democracy and in the power of collective wisdom.

It is not too late. We have a duty to help as many of our fellow
citizens as possible understand the dire situation we are in. We must
all do more to explain, inform and educate; public pressure can create
profound change.

At the age of 19, I already feel like a broken record – but we need
to keep repeating the message on climate action, constantly. For hope
begins when we open our eyes and swap the impotence of words for the
power of collective action.

Nearly 20 per cent of Canadians skipping meals amid rising food costs: survey | Globalnews.ca: The majority of respondents in a Canada-wide survey released Monday
said they are using coupons or hunting for sales to cope with increasing
food costs. Nearly 20 per cent were also reducing meal sizes or
skipping meals altogether in order to save money.

The survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and Social
Research at the University of Saskatchewan was conducted from Sept. 6 to
Oct. 17. It asked 1,001 people about strategies to cope with increasing
food costs.

Statistics Canada’s consumer price index report
said while the country’s annual inflation rate dropped slightly to 6.9
per cent in September, the cost of groceries continued to climb. Grocery
prices increased at the fastest rate since August 1981, with prices up
11.4 per cent compared to a year ago.

In adapting to the surging
costs, most respondents in the survey said they have been cutting
coupons. A majority _ almost 59 per cent _ were also decreasing their
household food waste.

Fifty-four per cent also made meal plans to ensure they had adequate funds for food.

BC Is Prioritizing Coastal GasLink’s Interests Over the Public’s | The Tyee:

As I write this, salmon are spawning in that river. Countless eggs —
an entire generation of salmon — have been laid in the riverbed gravel.
And Coastal GasLink is drilling a massive borehole within 12 metres of
those salmon eggs.

The potential impacts of drilling on these salmon eggs are unclear. What is clear is that Coastal GasLink cannot be trusted to safeguard the Wedzin Kwa and the surrounding environment.

The company has an
egregious track record. Coastal GasLink has damaged wetlands, rivers and
lakes along the $11-billion pipeline route — a pipeline that aims to
transport fracked gas from northeast B.C. to LNG Canada in Kitimat.

Since construction began in 2019 the company has been issued 51
warnings, 16 orders and two fines by the BC Environmental Assessment
Office for repeated non-compliance related to erosion and sediment
control.

“Untold human suffering” is in the near future as U.N. warns climate change is pushing Earth closer to extreme warming:

The
U.N. issued the reports on Wednesday and Thursday providing details on
the state of the planet. For years, scientists both in and outside of
the organization have warned with growing urgency that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial times is critical to minimizing extreme temperatures and climate disasters.

But according to U.N. Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report, there is now “no credible pathway” remaining to make that happen.

“Loss and damage from the climate emergency is getting worse by the
day and global and national climate commitments are falling pitifully
short,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.
“…Under current policies, the world is headed for 2.8 degrees of
global heating by the end of the century. In other words, we are headed
for a global catastrophe.”

The only way to change this trajectory is with “urgent
system-wide transformation,” the agency said — but as the U.N.’s other
reports show, such transformative changes are not on track.

On Wednesday, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change issued its own report showing
that countries around the world are currently on a path to increase
greenhouse gas emissions by 10.6% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels.
While that is an improvement from last year’s assessment — which
projected an increase of 13.7% — it is still far more than the
environment can handle.

The more greenhouse gases there are in
the atmosphere —particularly carbon dioxide and methane — the more the
sun’s radiation is trapped in the planet and the Earth warms. The report
warns that nations’ efforts to reduce emissions are still
“insufficient” to minimize global warming.

Even if all 193
parties who signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement fulfill their
current commitments, the world is still looking at roughly 2.5 degree
Celsius of temperature rise by 2100.

“This year’s analysis shows
that while emissions are no longer increasing after 2030, they are still
not demonstrating the rapid downward trend science says is necessary
this decade,” the report said, adding that the agency found earlier this
year that greenhouse gas emissions would need to be cut by 43% by 2030
to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Foreign ‘adversaries’ may have leveraged ‘freedom movement’ to advance agendas: memo | Globalnews.ca: Unnamed foreign “adversaries” may have leveraged the Canadian “freedom movement” protests to advance their own interests, a newly-disclosed intelligence report suggest.

According to previously secret assessments by the Ontario Provincial
Police’s (OPP) intelligence branch, the “available information” on Feb.
19 suggested that foreign actors may have pushed support for the
movement, which fueled the convoy blockades in Ottawa and across the
country, “to protect or enhance their own strategic economic and
political interests.”

The report provides no proof of foreign involvement, and does not indicate where the OPP’s intelligence came from.

But
while February’s convoy protests and blockade enjoyed home-grown
support in Canada, the OPP assessment suggested the movement received
both encouragement and support from abroad – including from the United
States, the only country named in the assessment.