But Clark's not sweating.



She just made a jaw-droppingly irresponsible procrastination announcement on climate (on a Friday afternoon, no less). You could almost hear environmental scientists ripping their hair out as she rolled out The BC Climate "plan". Hey, meaningful results will start kicking in... 15 years from now.

Welcome to “The Bummer Channel.” Climate Change. Premier Clark apparently would like to avoid it. But it persistently intrudes into our end-of-summer lazy days. I get it. It makes me want to head for the beach and pretend it’s not happening/everything’s alright, too. (But as a reader just pointed out to me, it's too hot.) Yeah, a big part of me doesn’t want to bring this up, either but, US government agencies think its fair to say it was the hottest month in all of human civilization.

Every country in the world should be at battle stations right now. The stable climate that allowed us to develop agriculture, cities – civilization generally – is in danger. And the media should be driving the point home.

UK Guardian writer George Monbiot recently lamented, however, that the “compromised, corrupted media” doesn’t want to keep people informed about the climate crisis.

But at National Observer, we are doing our best to fight against the news crowd rushing to “brain melting irrelevance.”