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Following a century and a half of forestry here, British Columbia’s industrial-sized logging operators are struggling to find the trees needed to maintain the profits they’ve become accustomed to. The result is Big Timber leaning ever more heavily on provincial decision-makers to get access to areas of the public forests once thought off-limits. For the Spotted Owl, just one of a host of species endangered by habitat loss, the provincial government’s reluctance to take a stand may make the difference between its survival or extirpation.
Joe Foy is Co-Executive Director of the Wilderness Committee, an organization dedicated to, “preserving wildlife, defending parks, safeguarding public resources and fighting for a healthy climate.” Joe leads the campaign team, and helps put together, coordinate and carry out strategies for its nature-protection campaigns.
Joe Foy in the first half.
And; while the numbers for July are not yet official, bets are that month’s global mean temperature will too join June in breaking the mark as the hottest on record. According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, “global land and ocean surface temperature departure from average for June 2019 was the highest for the month of June in the 140-year NOAA global temperature dataset record.”
In fact, nine of the ten hottest June’s have occurred since 2010. Perhaps even more troubling though is the dearth of Antarctica’s “ice extent”, the smallest ever measured.
Dahr Jamail is a journalist and author who has, as staff writer at Truthout, been writing about climate change for the past decade or more. Dahr toured the island in early June with his book, ‘The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
Dahr Jamail and finding a way of life in a time of climate disruption in the second half.
And; Victoria-based activist, and long-time Gorilla Radio contributor, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Events Bulletin of some of the good things to be gotten up to in and around our town in the coming week. But first, Joe Foy and allowing the Spotted Owl’s habitat be logged away.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
