How to Win the Climate War: Fight Peak Oil
Climate change is not a clear and present danger. It is clear to scientists, to those who take the trouble to understand the science, and to those who trust the former or the latter. It is not at all...
View ArticleHow the NDP Reduced Themselves to Mediocrity
There is a campaign right now in my province of BC to ensure that the new Harmonised Sales Tax (HST) does not apply to bicycles. The HST is replacing the federal and provincial sales taxes, and...
View ArticleWhy the “Don’t you care about your children?” argument doesn’t work on...
It is common for people who are concerned about looming catastrophes like climate change and peak oil to appeal to the humanity of those doing the damage. They think that, if only they could have a...
View ArticleGo Green or Die —> The Way Home
The purpose of this site is to find a ‘green’ lever big enough to move the world to sustainability. I titled it Go Green or Die because, well, that is true, we must, and becauseI thought it rather...
View ArticleThink Globally, Act Locally is More Important Now
Those of you who follow me know that I have recently ceased making posts urging large-scale reform. The reasons for that are fairly simple, but they involve a psychological hurdle to get over. I have...
View ArticleAn Apology to My MLA, Lana Popham
Well. Time to eat some crow. A couple of weeks ago I slagged Lana (and fellow NDP MLA John Horgan) for standing in the way of what we really need, which is rapid and decisive action on climate change...
View ArticleWhy Is George Monbiot Shilling for Nuclear Power?
Helen Caldicott and George Monbiot have recently attacked each other in anti and pro-nuclear articles, and honestly I now am entirely unsure of the truth. Both claim scientific backing, though Monbiot...
View ArticleTake Initiative: Transition Off Oil
The world oil supply is running down and we have no ready substitutes. Climate change is happening now – stronger storms, more devastating wildfires, rising sea levels, diseases spreading – the list...
View ArticleObama: Not the man we hoped he would be
The US ‘debt ceiling deal’ simply reinforces that, for sensible people, Obama is definitely not ‘the guy’ we hoped he would be. And never was. Way back when first elected, he appointed Steven Chu as...
View ArticleGlobal Weirding: Record-shattering spring temperatures a warning of extreme...
I’m on the West Coast of Canada, where temperatures have been unusually cool: 4-5 C below ‘normal’ for weeks now. I used to live in Ontario, where temperature records are currently being blown away: 8,...
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