Anthr-Apology

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Welcome!

AnthrApology is a 12 (Possibly 24!) hour installation performance. It is based on the idea that the world needs a truth and reconciliation commission for all humans and their relationship with one another, as well as their individual and collective relationships with the planet. These are apologies, faux-pologies, cris-de-coeur, misguided apologies, desperate calls for forgiveness, refusals to apologize, simple settling of scores, deathbed confessions. Imagined apologies. Oblique and veiled apologies. Fantasy apologies. This work will involve exploring performance and scenographic possibilities in found spaces and using diverse methods and technologies in preparation for a full production of this text.

A performance collective. A performance ecology. Planetary performance. A performance commons. Initiating a 100,000 year performance cycle (go big or go home!).

This site serves as a suitcase we are packing for our explorations, carrying the scores for singing our imaginations, and the hammers, chisels and feathers for tickling our foundations as we begin a journey to bring this forward, for you. It’s surely to be overstuffed, bursting at the seams and if we’ve done this right it will never close again from this moment forward. If you are following and you come across a slip that has fallen out onto the sidewalk, an empty bottle or a forgotten pair of sunglasses, please keep them. If you want to.

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A mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean has puzzled scientists. A new study says it’s an ominous sign | CNN

In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a swath of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean h

“….. A raft of research suggests this system is weakening as human-driven global warming melts ice and causes a surge of freshwater into the ocean, disrupting the AMOC’s delicate balance of heat and salinity. Some scientists warn the AMOC is heading toward a tipping point, potentially as early at this century, which would mean a future collapse is locked in.

An AMOC shutdown would be a global catastrophe, causing accelerated sea level rise on the US East Coast, plunging Europe into a winter deep freeze and shifting the monsoon in Africa, driving prolonged droughts.”

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Norwegian government attacked over decision to reopen North Sea gasfields

Approval for exploration in 70 new areas prompts fierce backlash from fossil fuel opponents

“It shows that the government is once again blatantly ignoring environmental advice from its own experts,” he said. “All the talk about responsible oil extraction is nothing but nonsense. It’s greenwashing through and through, with vulnerable and important natural areas being put at risk with full awareness.”

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

“The mega-leaks occur across the world, but the top 25 list, produced by the Stop Methane Project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is dominated by facilities in Turkmenistan. The scale of methane leaks in the secretive and authoritarian state has previously been described as “mind-boggling”.

Super-polluting plumes were also seen in the US, the largest detected in 2025 occurring in Texas and leaking 5.5 tonnes of methane per hour, equivalent to running about a million fuel-guzzling SUVs. Venezuela (five) and Iran (three) also had multiple mega-leaks from state-owned facilities…….

…..Methane emissions cause 25% of global heating today, and there has been a “scary” surge since 2007, according to scientists. They have warned that this acceleration seriously risks triggering catastrophic climate tipping points. However, cutting methane emissions has a rapid impact, because the gas is naturally removed from the atmosphere far quicker than carbon dioxide. Some experts call cutting methane the climate “emergency brake”. »

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The West’s Winter Has Been a Slow-Moving Catastrophe

Without snow in the mountains, the places that depend on the West’s rivers will hurt for water.

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Lack of snow in B.C.'s Interior forces outdoor industries to pivot | CBC News

Bike and ski businesses in the region have been forced to adapt to the unseasonably warm and dry conditions this winter. While some mountain

“"….With less snow, people are a little less interested in getting new ski gear," said Jim Maybee, the manager of Skookum in Salmon Arm, while on a mountain bike ride with a CBC reporter on Feb. 11.

"We're seeing more bike action and less ski action."

He said in his 28 years living in the region, he cannot remember a time when riding was possible, let alone ideal in January or February….”

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“…. While some mountaintops in the area — like Revelstoke — have received more precipitation than average, the valley bottoms have been unseasonably dry and mild.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said over the last 90 days, Salmon Arm hit daily highs of, on average, three degrees warmer than the seasonal normal.

"It has been above average temperature wise, below average precipitation. Warmer and drier," said Lang.

Typically, the region receives more than 200 millimetres of precipitation over the winter months. So far this winter, less than 150 mm of precipitation has fallen on Salmon Arm, said Lang.“

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Plains megafire burns a Chicago-sized area spanning two states with more dangerous weather to come | CNN

Dangerous, critical fire weather conditions persist Wednesday after more than a dozen new wildfires torched tens of thousands of acres and f

“This dangerous setup has been brewing all winter. Nearly 200 locations across the West, Rockies and portions of the Plains are experiencing their warmest winter to date, according to data from NOAA. This includes where the worst fires are burning this week in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

The persistent heat coupled with less precipitation than normal has created dry to drought-stricken soils in the region and crispy fuels. It’s a situation that will likely only become more common as the world warms due to fossil fuel pollution.”

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Opinion: What will finally bring down Donald Trump? Maybe it’s climate change

Drought, rising prices and inflation reveal political risks for downplaying climate change - and could test loyalty of U.S. President’s base

“There’s a cautionary tale in this. To paraphrase Trotsky, we may not be interested in climate change, but climate change won’t allow us to escape its net. If we don’t pay the price of arresting it now, we’ll get the bill in due course – and the sticker shock could end political careers.”


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What Trump’s plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: With plans to sell off over a million acres of natural habitat for oil and gas development, the Trump administrat

“This week, the Trump administration took a key step towards opening new leases for oil and gas drilling across millions of acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – a pristine and biodiverse expanse in northern Alaska and one of the last wildlands in the US still left untouched……”

“Plans for oil and gas development in the Coastal Plain were hatched last year, after the US Department of Interior reversed a Biden-era decision that put restrictions on drilling there. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” funding legislation passed by Congress instructs the US Bureau of Land Management to hold at least four lease sales over the next decade, with each offering at least 400,000 acres……”

“In a region as vulnerable as it is rugged – warming roughly four times as fast as the rest of the world – experts have also warned development could come with dire consequences. If such actions accelerate melting in the Arctic, people and ecosystems around the world will pay the price…...”

“This year was the warmest on record and had the most precipitation on record – to see both of those things happen in one year is remarkable,” Matthew Langdon Druckenmiller, an Arctic scientist at the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center, and an editor of the Arctic report card, told the Guardian in December. “This year has really underscored what is to come.”

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What happens when the Winter Olympics run out of winter? | CBC Sports

With Italy weeks away from hosting the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, followed by the Paralympic Games in March, sustainability goals are a

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Feel like the world is on fire right now? 2025 was, too | CBC Climate Change News

2025 ranked as the third hottest year on record, barely behind the last two years, and one where regions of the world still saw dangerous an

“It’s not good news,” said Florian Pappenberger, director general of the ECMWF. “It's quite concerning, and it's not just our news….”

“….experts say third place still meant a year replete with dangerous and deadly conditions for hundreds of millions of people…..”

“But perhaps most striking for Caiserman, who studies the mountainous regions, was a dramatic collapse in the Dehdal glacier, captured in an Instagram video last October.

“We say it surged, which means that you can see the glacier moving from top to valley bottom very rapidly, several metres per second,” Caiserman said. “And this is due to the increasing viscosity of the ice related and triggered by high temperatures.” 

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Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations

Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups

“US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.”

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Climate disasters in 2025 threatened people's ability to respond and adapt, scientists say | CBC News

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.

“It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 C since preindustrial times.”

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Glaciers melting from climate change may reawaken the world’s most dangerous volcanoes

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon's blood. Then the charm is firm and good.” (Macbeth IV/1)

“When we talk about climate change, we are always talking about chaos.” (Moreno-Yaeger.)

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‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement

The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable

“The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable.”

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The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial

Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with

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60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

“The African penguin species has undergone a population decline of nearly 80% in 30 years.”

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“We don’t find large rafts of carcasses – our sense is that they probably die at sea.”