climate
Against climate realism: reclaiming climate futures
June 10, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer In a recent article for the American think tank Council on Foreign Relations, senior fellow for energy and climate Varun Sivaram proposed a new doctrine for climate policy: climate realism. This seemingly pragmatic approach argues it’s impossible to avert climate change completely. Instead, it claims the US should favour more profitable and geopolitically strategic ways of managing climate consequences. In truth, climate realism is anything but realistic. This elitist discourse cloaks inaction, securitization, and racialized control. For example, Sivaram weaves a story of how carbon emissions from “emerging and non-advanced economies” are threatening the survival…
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The climate’s health is ours
January 15, 2025By: Sofia Chassomeris, Opinions Editor There it is again, that funny feeling. Climate change is causing catastrophic floods, droughts, wildfires, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and extreme temperatures around the world. In seemingly unrelated news, the US just reported the country’s…
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It’s time for SFU to fully divest from fossil fuels
September 11, 2021By Luke Faulks, SFU student This summer, unprecedented temperatures captured the world’s attention when domestic and international news outlets warned about record-breaking heat in Lytton, just days before the town was destroyed in a wildfire. As grim as this was, the…
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SFU350 calls on SFU to declare climate emergency
September 7, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer On August 11, climate action student group, SFU350, released a Climate Emergency Declaration Open Letter urging SFU to take action against the climate crisis on social media. They demand that SFU declare a climate emergency,…
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Professor Mark Jaccard’s lecture on climate emergency emphasizes the importance of sincerity and citizen action
February 24, 2020Written by: Madeleine Chan Mark Jaccard, SFU Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management, gave a talk about climate action at SFU’s Harbour Centre last week. He is also one of the four SFU experts…
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Post-secondary students assemble to plan for climate justice
January 28, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Post-secondary students from across Metro Vancouver came together on the afternoon of Sunday, January 19 at SFU’s Harbour Centre to start a coalition for climate justice. The first meeting of the Metro Vancouver Post-Secondary Students…
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Unique degree explores environmental controversies
November 17, 2014SFU’s Faculty of Environment (FENV) launched Canada’s first Bachelor’s of Environment program, which aims to create environmental problem-solvers and decision-makers capable of making a contribution to mitigating climate change. A balance of the social sciences and the natural sciences, the…
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Awareness of climate change policy may not matter
November 17, 2014According to a new SFU study, the majority of British Columbians are uninformed about provincial climate policies — and that’s all right. Authored by Jonn Axsen and Mark Jaccard, SFU professors of resource and environmental management, along with PhD candidate…
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