By Chris Hatch
Is climate change about energy or politics? Technology or culture? Finance or justice? If your answer is “all of the above,” this might be the newsletter for you.
Each week, we’ll take a broad look at the climate emergency, separating the green from the greenwash, profiling what’s working and highlighting what’s truly important in the news.
You already know climate destruction is a crisis and you’re probably frustrated, even angry, that so much of the media doesn’t treat it that way.
If you’re anything like me, you find yourself vacillating between despair and inspiration.
That edge of fear in sharpening wind. The dread that accompanies the news: another area recently burned, now flooded. Displacement and drought. Storms and hunger. So many people condemned to suffer.
But then, also: youth rising all over the world, networked and fierce. Clean energy blooming. Movements winning. Solar prices cratering. Fossil boosters scrambling.
The climate movement today reaches from Indigenous leaders in the Arctic to the Amazon. Financial wizards from Wall Street to Beijing. Local food co-ops from Toronto to Tanzania. Engineers, policy wonks, scientists, social justice movements, CEOs, parents, politicians…
Things are changing so quickly, and climate touches so many aspects of our lives that most days dipping into a newsfeed can feel like dropping into a typhoon. When things seem bleak, it’s worth remembering it wasn’t long ago that things weren’t like this at all. The plates are shifting now.
They’re impacting geopolitics and local politics. Culture. Business.
In this newsletter, we’ll try to separate the important from the hype. We’ll look at what’s working and what’s holding us back in the race against climate change. Zero Carbon will explore the climate crisis in Canada and around the world.
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