Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
@laurieadkin.bsky.social
Professor Emerita, University of Alberta, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Ecology and Democracy, climate policy in Canada and Alberta, populist far right, political ecology of higher education
The Liberals and Conservatives keep reducing the numbers of immigrants and refugees they will admit to Canada while at the same time cutting foreign aid and promoting oil and gas exports that are fuelling the global climate crisis. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The Liberals and Conservatives keep reducing the numbers of immigrants and refugees they will admit to Canada while at the same time cutting foreign aid and promoting oil and gas exports that are fuelling the global climate crisis. 1/
Here is a cautionary tale for Albertans.
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta - SOMO
Shell's divestment from Nigeria leaves a legacy of widespread pollution and evades responsibility for its toxic mess by selling its problem oil assets.
www.somo.nl
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Here is a cautionary tale for Albertans.
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
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This is interesting: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...
The Limits of Basic Income
Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is interesting: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...
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"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
At 2°C warming, only 25% of Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers will survive, warns report | Dehradun News - The Times of India
Dehradun: Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two bill.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
Et voila, en fin, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood nails it. Well done, @followinghadrian.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Et voila, en fin, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood nails it. Well done, @followinghadrian.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
These @policyalternatives.ca authors offer a very strong review of the Liberal climate policy framework -- on which the Carney government is indeed doubling down. It needs to be emphasized that the pillars of the Liberal's framework have failed dreadfully.1/
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement - CCPA
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change. Grounded in the best available science, it called for ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
These @policyalternatives.ca authors offer a very strong review of the Liberal climate policy framework -- on which the Carney government is indeed doubling down. It needs to be emphasized that the pillars of the Liberal's framework have failed dreadfully.1/
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Neoliberals: The tax credit approach has failed for more than 40 years, so let's keep doing it . . .
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Ottawa hopes investment tax credits will help fight climate change — but nobody is using them
The federal government allotted more than $9 billion to fund investment tax credits designed to boost private sector support for clean technology, but a new report from Canada's environment commission...
www.ipolitics.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Neoliberals: The tax credit approach has failed for more than 40 years, so let's keep doing it . . .
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
"Even if fully achieved [and we are far from it], Canada’s 2030 target itself is not ambitious enough to be 1.5°C compatible."
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
Canada
climateactiontracker.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Even if fully achieved [and we are far from it], Canada’s 2030 target itself is not ambitious enough to be 1.5°C compatible."
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
"technology-based CDR accounts for only about one-millionth of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"technology-based CDR accounts for only about one-millionth of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The @mark-carney.bsky.social budget allocates $20 million/yr for a Youth Climate Corps and $800 million/yr in tax credits for the Pathways Alliance CCS pipeline. The first is 2% of the amt needed to seriously tackle youth unemployment. The latter locks Canada in to expanding oil & gas extraction.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The @mark-carney.bsky.social budget allocates $20 million/yr for a Youth Climate Corps and $800 million/yr in tax credits for the Pathways Alliance CCS pipeline. The first is 2% of the amt needed to seriously tackle youth unemployment. The latter locks Canada in to expanding oil & gas extraction.
The relationship between Alberta Conservative politicians, state agencies under their control, and the oil/gas/coal corporations may be described as fusional. This has been the case since the 1950s. The AER is run by oil/gas industry men --always has been. 1/
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Documents related to Summit coal decision raise more questions about Alberta Energy Regulator’s independence
Regulator’s CEO sought ‘input’ from Energy Minister’s chief of staff on a motion to cancel hearings about a proposed mine
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The relationship between Alberta Conservative politicians, state agencies under their control, and the oil/gas/coal corporations may be described as fusional. This has been the case since the 1950s. The AER is run by oil/gas industry men --always has been. 1/
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Reposted by Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
"Millions of tons of stamp sands containing toxins like arsenic, lead, and mercury have eroded the coastline [of Lake Superior], overwhelmed fish spawning habitats, and poisoned the benthic animals that feed lake trout and whitefish."
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thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"Millions of tons of stamp sands containing toxins like arsenic, lead, and mercury have eroded the coastline [of Lake Superior], overwhelmed fish spawning habitats, and poisoned the benthic animals that feed lake trout and whitefish."
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
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"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry."
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry."
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
Still basking in the relief and hopefulness of Mamdani's win in New York, I permit myself a little homage a la Leonard Cohen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (Official Video)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
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November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Still basking in the relief and hopefulness of Mamdani's win in New York, I permit myself a little homage a la Leonard Cohen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We are headed toward 3 degrees of global warming by the end of this century, and very possibly more, given the refusal of governments to alter the status quo of fossil capitalism. 1/
www.unep.org/resources/em...
www.unep.org/resources/em...
Emissions Gap Report 2025
UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...
www.unep.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We are headed toward 3 degrees of global warming by the end of this century, and very possibly more, given the refusal of governments to alter the status quo of fossil capitalism. 1/
www.unep.org/resources/em...
www.unep.org/resources/em...
This Green Budget, produced by Canadian ENGOs, contains excellent proposals. 1/
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greenbudget.ca/wp-content/u...
greenbudget.ca
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This Green Budget, produced by Canadian ENGOs, contains excellent proposals. 1/
greenbudget.ca/wp-content/u...
greenbudget.ca/wp-content/u...
Carney has seriously misjudged the moment, producing a budget that merely continues the failed approaches of the past. He has, in fact, lurched to the right. Let us hope, for the sake of our descendants, that the NDP, Greens, and BQ do not follow his lead.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Carney has seriously misjudged the moment, producing a budget that merely continues the failed approaches of the past. He has, in fact, lurched to the right. Let us hope, for the sake of our descendants, that the NDP, Greens, and BQ do not follow his lead.
"In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light."
May it be so.
www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
May it be so.
www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
"In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light."
May it be so.
www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
May it be so.
www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...
This is indeed an "ugly history," and the Atlas-affiliated "think tanks" in Canada have been part of it: Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Montreal Economic Institute, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and Second Street.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is indeed an "ugly history," and the Atlas-affiliated "think tanks" in Canada have been part of it: Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Montreal Economic Institute, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and Second Street.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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New guest post!
Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New guest post!
Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
Turning Climate Action into Economic Threat: The Far Right’s Moral Storytelling by @tillhilmar.bsky.social
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/guest-posts/...
Reposted by Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
#Fossilfuel burning has made BC's Peace region "warmer and drier... But rather than heed the warnings, one B.C. government after another twisted itself into knots arguing that using more “clean” hydro to power more methane gas production amounted to a climate solution." #bcpoli #climatecrisis
The projected cost of a $100-million water pipeline stretching more than 50 kilometres from the Peace River to drought-stressed Dawson Creek is nearly five times greater than what the city received in property tax revenue last year.
Ben Parfitt writes. #bcpoli
Ben Parfitt writes. #bcpoli
Why Fracking Firms Should Pay for a $100-Million Water Pipeline | The Tyee
As Dawson Creek considers transferring drinking water from the Peace River, BC could make energy companies fund the project.
thetyee.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#Fossilfuel burning has made BC's Peace region "warmer and drier... But rather than heed the warnings, one B.C. government after another twisted itself into knots arguing that using more “clean” hydro to power more methane gas production amounted to a climate solution." #bcpoli #climatecrisis