resilience
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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Memorable Moments: Italy wins the 2020 EURO Cup
March 14, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer The tension in the living room was thick. Nobody uttered a word. It was as if we were in that stadium halfway across the world, the weight of our goalkeepers’ task heavy on our shoulders.…
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Solutions lie in marine life
May 13, 2018By: Agnetha de Sa, Peak Associate ‘Reefs of hope’ may help protect coral reefs from climate-change impacts In their published article Seeking resilience in marine ecosystems, SFU alumna Emily Darling, and marine biology professor Isabelle Côté suggest a solution to help…
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