Jesse Firempong
Columnist
English
About Jesse Firempong
Jesse Firempong is a columnist for Canada's National Observer writing about climate justice. A Ghanaian-Canadian freelance writer and communications strategist focused on social and climate justice, she has worked with Greenpeace, Oxfam and on human rights projects in Canada, Ghana and Botswana.
What this election means for women, racialized and climate-vulnerable communities
The election is over — and not much has changed. "There is no real triumph to be found, but at least we’re still here to fight another day," writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
If this election were on Netflix ...
Following Canada’s 44th election is a bit like rewatching old political dramas on Netflix, says columnist Jesse Firempong. We’ve seen them all before, and we know what to expect.
Canada has profited from fossil fuels. Now we have a moral obligation to climate refugees
Canada, a country which has profited enormously from burning fossil fuels, has a “moral obligation” to people forced to flee rising seas, drought and other plagues of a world on fire, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
Deceptive fossil fuel companies must be held accountable for their climate crimes
The recent heat waves and fires sweeping Canada illustrate that the skeletons in the closets of Exxon and all fossil fuel companies have proven more than metaphorical, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
Hate is a demon the police can’t slay
After more than a century of colonial policing that has hurt not helped racialized people, it's time to try something new, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.
Equality, not charity, can end vaccine apartheid
In the race to protect ourselves against COVID-19, Canada's government and corporate interests have opted not for solidarity but for charity, a habit that has directly enabled vaccine apartheid, writes Jesse Firempong.
Women lead the climate movement. Don’t leave them out of the green recovery
By consciously making space for women in the green recovery from COVID-19, we’ll find new pathways for fixing the economic and ecological imbalances with which our society is reckoning, write Jesse Firempong and Lydie Padilla.
Essential or exception: Whose rights matter in a pandemic?
Big energy companies need to play by the same COVID 19 rules as the rest of us
Climate change is making wildfire behaviour stranger than fiction
Scientists have used recent B.C. fires to model the effects of nuclear war on climate.