Discussion of climate change and call for emergency war-like response

environment

An opinion piece discusses the climate crisis as an existential emergency requiring a war-like mobilization of society, including political leadership, rationing, and transformation of industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It critiques current political short-termism and calls for civil society organization.

This is the archive, not the newspaper. Between 2018 and 2026 this site compiled these items automatically from public community sources — chiefly The Islands Grapevine, regional news feeds and community groups. They were not written by a reporter and were not held to the standards this publication now applies. The archive is kept because it is a useful dated record of what happened on Denman, and it is labelled because pretending otherwise would be the first thing we would tell you not to trust. Current reporting is at The Denman Firestarter.

Sources

• “We need to transform to a human enterprise that is in synch with nature... Governments must mandate that Industrial productive capacity and resources must make only products that reduce or eliminate GHG emissions... Everyone—governments, corporations, citizenry—must adopt an emergency we-are-at-war mindset.” — The Islands Grapevine – May 23rd, 2024 (May 23rd, 2024)

Spotted an error? corrections@denmanisland.co.