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Climate Change Steves

@climatesteves.bsky.social
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Harold Steves Agroecologist, ecosocialist, Researched climate change & Ag UBC 1960, BC Ag Land Reserve 1972, Metro Van Food Security 2006, Hon Member Planning Institute of BC, UBC Land & Food Hall of Fame, Vancouver & Richmond Heritage Awards, King's medal

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
6) Let’s all keep in mind that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for the lion’s share of the climate crisis, and advances in attribution science makes it possible to quantify accountability. This should be our message going forward: apnews.com/article/clim...
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The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates
A new study estimates that the world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, which is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last ...
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The worst is yet to come.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Private companies know there’s no case for more pipelines when renewables have never been cheaper, cleaner, and faster to deploy. So the government is investing OUR money instead. We need to start marching in the streets again. Most Canadians agree: NO taxpayer-funded pipelines >> act.gp/3RlAuJq
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Even the oil companies don't want to pay for new pipelines!
Our government shouldn’t gamble our money and our future on pipelines.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@davidebybc.bsky.social @kellyrichmondbc.bsky.social
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In 1971 I organized BC's 1st major environmental protest, 4,000 people at the Peace Arch protesting against supertankers coming down the BC coast. I was MC & sang about it. No new pipeline in the north is good. A new pipeline in the south isn't. Climate change is here. It's time to mobilize again.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just signed this petition with Stand.earth: It is bad enough that the production and burning of LNG produces GHG's like coal without smoke. Shipping LNG endangers nearby communities. Where I live, Steveston, would be affected. Sign the petition: Stop Tilbury LNG at act.stand.earth/page/78758/p...
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Stand.earth - For the people and places you love
For more than twenty years, we’ve been utilizing cutting-edge research, building equitable power with frontline communities, and leveraging mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellb...
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I just signed this petition with Stand.earth: It is bad enough that the production and burning of LNG produces GHG's like coal without smoke. Shipping LNG endangers nearby communities. Where I live, Steveston, would be affected. Sign the petition: Stop Tilbury LNG at act.stand.earth/page/78758/p...
stand.earth
Stand.earth - For the people and places you love
For more than twenty years, we’ve been utilizing cutting-edge research, building equitable power with frontline communities, and leveraging mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellb...
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We have our Alpha Tomato Plants for sale. Tomato planting rime is arriving fast this year. 12C at night, tomatoes delight. Alpha is the earliest producing tomato for our climate and produces the latest.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“Let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown or green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing people may use political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy to retain its power of exploitation & special privilege.” ~ Tommy Douglas
“Once more, let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
~ Tommy Douglas
A black and white photo of Douglas, wearing glasses and standing in front of a microphone, raising his right arm and fist into the air.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We have our Alpha Tomato Plants for sale. Tomato planting rime is arriving fast this year. 12C at night, tomatoes delight. Alpha is the earliest producing tomato for our climate and produces the latest.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Seeds for Sale. We have seeds for sale at our farm gate, 2871 Steveston Highway, by the west dyke. We sell organic vegetable seed varieties that we have grown on our farm for 100 years. They are very well adapted to our climate.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here is our 2026 seed list
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Here is our 2026 seed list
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Congratulations @avilewis.ca ! After years of Liberalism the NDP is reborn.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Congratulations @avilewis.ca ! After years of Liberalism the NDP is reborn.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Voting for @avilewis.ca closes at 7PM ET
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you are an NDP member this is your last chance to vote for Avi Lewis
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you are an NDP member this is your last chance to vote for Avi Lewis
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Because of Trump's war global gas prices are rising including Canada which has a surplus of fossil fuels. American billionaires & corporations that own Canada's oil & gas companies are making billions from the high prices. Canada should cap prices, tax the excess profit & subsidize public transit.
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Brendan Clugston @b-clugston.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Great seeds that are well adapted to the Greater Vancouver climate. Highly recommend the tomatoes.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Because of Trump's war global gas prices are rising including Canada which has a surplus of fossil fuels. American billionaires & corporations that own Canada's oil & gas companies are making billions from the high prices. Canada should cap prices, tax the excess profit & subsidize public transit.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I had given up on the NDP. It is not the party of Tommy Douglas or the Dave Barrett in BC when I was MLA. Then along came Avi Lewis. I am pleased to endorse him as leader.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are in an economic war with Trump. Climate change is hitting farm crops in the USA with drought. We import much of our vegetables from the US. The cost of food is going up. We need food independence. Plant a Victory Garden.
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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
BC has some of the finest arable land in #Canada And w/ climate change northern BC having a longer growing season. We need t/b cautious allowing crypto farming and ai data farms cuz they use insane amounts of water & electricity better used for agriculture. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ALR @bcndp.bsky.social
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Says he, who just bombed a school killing 150 children.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Seeds for Sale. We have seeds for sale at our farm gate, 2871 Steveston Highway, by the west dyke. We sell organic vegetable seed varieties that we have grown on our farm for 100 years. They are very well adapted to our climate.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I had given up on the NDP. It is not the party of Tommy Douglas or the Dave Barrett in BC when I was MLA. Then along came Avi Lewis. I am pleased to endorse him as leader.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's 85 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. The folks at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ended today's presentation with a call for a global people's revolution against the maniacs in charge. Well not exactly, but close! @mariaressa.bsky.social was 🔥 thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 85 seconds to midnight.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Time to return to our roots.The Barrett NDP built more Co-op housing than any time in BC history; bought failing companies, Columbia Cellulose & Kootenay Forest products & ran at a profit; BC Ambulance service instead of private ambulances; neighbourhood pubs instead of hotel monopoly; to name a few
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Federally the Green Party has collapsed and the NDP has become liberal. Here's why I support Avi Lewis for NDP leader. To Green supporters and NDP supporters and those who have abandoned the NDP, please join to support Avi Lewis and the best of both parties.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
In Richmond BC downtown parks & trails have pipes in the ground supplying geothermal ground heat to downtown apartment buildings. We also use sewage heat.The system pays for itself in 17 yrs compared to 80-100 yrs for Site C Dam. Until 2022 I was on the Lulu Island Energy board. Solar should be next
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
In Richmond BC downtown parks & trails have pipes in the ground supplying geothermal ground heat to downtown apartment buildings. We also use sewage heat.The system pays for itself in 17 yrs compared to 80-100 yrs for Site C Dam. Until 2022 I was on the Lulu Island Energy board. Solar should be next
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Time to return to our roots.The Barrett NDP built more Co-op housing than any time in BC history; bought failing companies, Columbia Cellulose & Kootenay Forest products & ran at a profit; BC Ambulance service instead of private ambulances; neighbourhood pubs instead of hotel monopoly; to name a few
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Federally the Green Party has collapsed and the NDP has become liberal. Here's why I support Avi Lewis for NDP leader. To Green supporters and NDP supporters and those who have abandoned the NDP, please join to support Avi Lewis and the best of both parties.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Carney shouldn't pay any attention to David Eby's lust for LNG. #SiteC Dam destroyed 10,000 acres of the best farmland & produces power for fracking the Montenay gas fields & producing LNG. Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal major study finds www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/09/n...
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Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Good news! California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline. This should end Alberta's demand for more pipelines. China is already a world leader in solar & ev's. With climate disaster imminent the world will follow California & China cleantechnica.com/2025/09/14/c...
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California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline - CleanTechnica
California’s refineries are closing not because of regulation, but because gasoline demand is shrinking as EV adoption crosses tipping points.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Canada is a major importer of fruit, vegetables & fish. As more oil & gas is exported expect equal increases in the cost of food as the planet warms. BC could be self sufficient but our governments are allowing development on #ALR Land protected by the Barrett #NDP. #keepitintheground & #savetheALR
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Carney shouldn't pay any attention to David Eby's lust for LNG. #SiteC Dam destroyed 10,000 acres of the best farmland & produces power for fracking the Montenay gas fields & producing LNG. Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal major study finds www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/09/n...
nationalobserver.com
Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Elizabeth May is right. We aren't independent of the USA if we have to depend on American corporations to build and operate nuclear and LNG plants.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Elizabeth May is right. We aren't independent of the USA if we have to depend on American corporations to build and operate nuclear and LNG plants.
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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 19/09/2025
Interesting to note that the refineries that are closing are heavy sour crude refineries, the kind that process Canadian crude. As gasoline demand declines, this type of refinery closes first because it's the least profitable. Time for Alberta to diversify its economy.
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Jeff Schering @yakkadoo.com · 16/09/2025
Note that the two refineries together process around 284,000 barrels/day of heavy sour crude. As far as I know, heavy sour crude (in the form of dilbit) is the only grade of oil shipped to California from Canada.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Good news! California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline. This should end Alberta's demand for more pipelines. China is already a world leader in solar & ev's. With climate disaster imminent the world will follow California & China cleantechnica.com/2025/09/14/c...
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California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline - CleanTechnica
California’s refineries are closing not because of regulation, but because gasoline demand is shrinking as EV adoption crosses tipping points.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Did you see the solar panels? We promoted solar on rooftops & over livestock grazing on pasture. We established an Agricultural Land Reserve to protect our limited farmland & scientists warned of desertification of farmland in the south & millions moving north as climate changes. It's happening now.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 06/09/2025
I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.
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In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III…
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
No surprise. In 1972 BC elected a science based social-democratic govt. for 3 1/2 yrs. We held science conferences on energy, decided against nuclear, opposed supertankers on our coast, & supertanker ports, banned offshore drilling & new dams, promoted LRT & held a week long alternative energy show
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CKC Pottery 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪲🐞🌱🍁🍄‍🟫🌳 @ckcpottery.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This makes me want to cry….if only….the road not taken. Yet, shows what we can do when the political pressure and actual information gets through.
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The "vow to protect food security" is a ploy to force farmers to not do what they want to on their own land In the US for example, less than 0.5% of farmland has been converted to solar gardens which can easily be returned to farmland. Do you have any idea how much farmland has become subdivisions?
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Grass grows very well under solar panels and grazing animals use panels for shelter from the hot sun in a warming climate.
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Climate Change Steves @climatesteves.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As the cost of food rises due to drought in food producing areas and parts of the world have food shortages golf courses should be farmed. Livestock and some crops do well combined with solar farms.
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