Seth Klein
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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). He is 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 a board member of the BC Society for Policy Solutions.
Carney won’t win hearts with another elitist climate plan
Carney’s climate plan, in particular, risks handing fodder to Poilievre while failing to captivate the climate-anxious voter.
Canada should hit Trump where it hurts the most — oil and gas
Such an export tax would certainly face political challenges; Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and the oil and gas companies themselves will blow a gasket. But a strong case can be made that layering an export tax on oil and gas is a fair approach within the overall Canadian response.
Vancouver council's gas plan goes up in smoke after fierce public pushback
Mobilizing to confront the climate emergency desperately requires forward momentum. Instead, thanks to the unrelenting persistence of the fossil gas industry, countless Vancouver-area climate activists and organizations just spent untold hours over the last four months re-prosecuting a fight they had already won.
Vancouver climate strike seeks to put wind back in movement's sails
There is no doubt the climate movement has struggled to regain the pre-pandemic mass momentum of 2019, when real victories seemed near at hand. However, a key value of such rallies is to break through feelings of isolation.
The climate movement must shift gears or it's done
We need to be more aggressive in our fight with the fossil fuel companies and their financial institution enablers
The shameful rebate by Fortis to keep customers hooked on gas
The gas company has started offering mammoth rebates of $10,000 for customers who purchase dual-system electric heat pumps with gas back-up
Unrelenting gas industry: FortisBC refuses to take no for an answer
Canada’s main residential suppliers of fossil gas remain unrelenting in their bloody-nailed determination to expand our reliance on their planet-burning, climate chaos-inducing product
Federal Liberals urgently need to shift terrain with bold ideas
As the government seeks a reset ahead of the fall 2025 election, it desperately needs to shake things up. The Liberals need to reinvigorate the terrain with exciting ideas that can, finally, change the dreadful script that has characterized the last two years. On the climate front it’s time to stop being so damn boring and invite the fight with the fossil fuel industry and its political servants.
CBC must strengthen its case for our – and its own – survival
The ubiquity of climate news and the language employed should align with the gravity of what we confront. Time for our public broadcaster to break the glass and sound the alarm.
Today’s Conservatives not fit to lead in an emergency
Today, as another existential and civilizational threat barrels down upon us, what would Conservative leadership look and sound like? Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is a far different beast than your grandparents’ Conservatives, and Poilievre is no Winston Churchill.