Recycling makes people feel good, but the idea that it improves the condition of humans or the planet is highly dubious.
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Peter Hitchens: I have just stopped supporting the monarchy. I can’t do it any more.
If this isn’t a sign of the end times…
(P.S. I’m glad somebody else feels this way):
@StephenBottrill Personally I'm a Richard III partisan and have grave doubts about the Tudor usurpation (see Josephine Tey's wonderful book 'The Daughter of Time'). But it's a bit late to bother about such things. Now off to see 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg Gotha'. https://t.co/JTLX6B1j3N
— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) November 7, 2021
Why you can’t just blame climate change for B.C. being on fire
With more than 300 active fires and thousands under evacuation orders, B.C. is currently on the fast track to the most destructive wildfire season in its history.
Although the fires have become an emblem around the world of the destructive effects of climate change, many of the province’s forestry experts are pointing out that while climate change makes fires more likely, it’s poor forestry management that is helping to make them more destructive.
No word on arson?
Canada’s Constitution should include right to healthy environment, argues new book
Through the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians are guaranteed rights including life, liberty and equality for all. But what about the right to a healthy environment?
Is Christianity the anti-green religion?
… The Bible can be read for passages that appear to justify our impact upon the natural world. Most obviously there is the Biblical passage (Genesis 1:28), to which Kingsnorth alludes, where God says to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Over-population, exploitation, habitat destruction and human arrogance. It’s all in there.
Prince Charles says Canadian Indigenous peoples must be heeded on environmental issues
Prince Charles says he has been in discussion with Canadian Indigenous leaders – adding it’s time for people to start to listen to them on environmental issues.
France Is Making Ecocide Illegal, But What Does That Mean?
Damaging the environment is set to become illegal in France, punishable by fines of up to €4.5 million and up to 10 years in prison.
A citizens’ assembly included criminalising ‘ecocide’ in its recommendations for the government earlier this year. A group of 150 randomly selected French citizens voted on proposals for combatting the climate crisis and among the proposals was a suggestion to make ‘ecocide’ (extensive damage to ecosystems) an offence punishable by law.