Seth Klein
Columnist | Vancouver |
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About Seth Klein
Seth Klein is the team lead and director of strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank. He is now a freelance policy consultant, speaker, researcher and writer, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Seth is an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s urban studies program and remains a research associate with the CCPA’s B.C. office.
Once again, the carbon tax sucks up all the political oxygen
While debate rages over carbon tax carveouts, other bold actions that could reduce planet-heating pollution get short shrift.
New poll shows strong support for a Youth Climate Corps
The Youth Climate Corps campaign is calling on federal and provincial governments to launch and fund an ambitious new youth training and employment program, inviting young people to spend two years confronting the climate emergency.
How to win electoral support from young people? How about instituting a Youth Climate Corps
One of Joe Biden’s great strengths when it comes to climate communications is that he always makes climate action, first and foremost, about jobs.
Reflections on a burning summer and the precarious terrain between hope and despair
In the battle for our lives, columnist Seth Klein asks: Is it possible we're winning?
Long-awaited Sustainable Jobs Act a snoozer
In the face of the climate emergency and the imperative to give workers and communities confidence as we rapidly transition the economy, the bill is fundamentally incongruent with the task at hand, and ultimately of little consequence as drafted.
Young people are already on the front lines of the climate crisis. Canada can help them fight it
Today, as I give talks and meet young people across the country, I am convinced that tens of thousands of them are once again eager to serve, ready to confront the civilizational threat of this generation, writes Seth Klein.
Crisis, what crisis? We need a climate emergency information agency
Emergency responses need to look and sound and feel like emergency responses, otherwise, the seriousness of the crisis itself lacks credibility.
B.C.’s new Premier David Eby hits the ground running
But what early climate signals can be found in his cabinet and mandate letters? asks Seth Klein.
What way forward for the BC NDP: Will new Premier David Eby set a new climate course?
I dearly hope David Eby takes a bunch of Anjali Appadurai’s bold ideas and makes them his own, writes Seth Klein.
A word to Ottawa about climate solutions from National Observer columnist Seth Klein
On Sept. 21, he shared his vision for a just transition with the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. And here's what he told them.