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CBC ListenDavid Suzuki warns Carney of pipeline and growth 'madness' | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen After more than four decades of activism and advocacy, David Suzuki is one of the most renowned and respected voices in the environmental movement. So when he says it's too late to stop climate change, people take notice. And that's now exactly what he's saying. He's delivering this message as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government focuses on fast-tracking major projects it deems to be of national interest, which could include a new pipeline for fossil fuels from Alberta. Suzuki says that, despite his understanding of the climate crisis, Carney — like all of us — is trapped by the economic and political systems we've created. And for Suzuki, our only hope for survival is to scrap those systems entirely. David Suzuki joins Jayme Poisson on the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion from what a world of irreversible climate change looks like to what he describes as the "madness" of continued investment in fossil fuels to the lessons environmentalists of the future can take from the past. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts.

#geology #nature #palaeontology #massextinction #climatechange

Fossils help to explain the mass extinction event that happened 250 million years ago. This extinction event saw nearly all life on Earth dying. It is thought that this was triggered by a rapid increase in greenhouse gases. This meant that the Earth met a tipping point. Scientists argue that this is happening now with extinction rates 100x times faster than normal.independent.co.uk/news/science

The Independent · ‘Great Dying’, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, unlocked 5 million years of lethal heat. Fossils tell us howBy Andrew Merdith

“We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that.”

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The Guardian · ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insectsBy Tess McClure