By Arden Henley Whether it is in BC where a right-wing populist party just about overturned the governing centre-left, New Democratic Party, in France where Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party recently ousted the Prime Minister, or the United States where Donald Trump...
Risky Business: The Future of Fossil Fuel Capitalism Book Review by Ross Thrasher Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. Verso, 2024. The definition of the term overshoot is to go past (a point) unintentionally,...
Brief Summaries: Articles from the Earth Issue of Wired Magazine By Ross Thrasher The September 2024 issue of Wired magazine, subtitled The Earth Issue, contains four interesting essays on climate and the environment. Here are brief summaries: “The hole in the map of...
In Volume 2, Issue 3 (August 2021) of the GTEC Reader, we have re-printed the chapter “Toppling the Indian Act Tree” from Jody Wilson-Raybould’s book, From Where I Stand. It is published in the GTEC Reader with permission from UBC Press, with an introduction and...
Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet. by Katherine Dolan, originally published by The Observatory Introduction Climate change is, by far, the biggest story of our era, an existential threat that has already...
Third in a Series: Brief Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher Is it frivolous to spend time reading novels during a climate emergency? I hope not, especially when fiction can offer insights into our predicament on a damaged planet. The GTEC Reader aspires to provide an arts...
