At the Limits of the Market Part 2: Why Capitalism Hasn't Solved Climate Change
Read At the Limits of the Market: Why Capitalism Won't Solve Climate Change, Part 1.One answer to the question of why free market capitalism has failed to generate technological solutions to the crisis...
View ArticleThe Day a Federal Panel Overruled B.C. — And Nobody Noticed
On the afternoon of Dec. 19th, as the National Energy Board’s recommendations on Enbridge’s oil tanker and pipeline proposal for B.C. were released, I tuned into CBC Newsworld and CTV News Network to...
View ArticleIs Keystone in the National Interest? Of Canada, That Is?
It's up to the U.S. President to decide whether the cross-border leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest of his country. Ultimately, his criteria are less scientific than political....
View ArticleSix Shocking Truths You Should Know About This American Foundation
In recent years, Canadians have heard a lot about those extremist American conservation foundations. They’ve been called radicals, money-launderers and even compared to Al Qaeda in Canada’s Senate.More...
View ArticleWhy Are Pipeline Spills Good For the Economy?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.Energy giant Kinder Morgan was recently called insensitive for pointing out that “Pipeline spills can have both positive and negative effects on local and regional...
View ArticleAddressing Global Warming is an Economic Necessity
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Those who don’t outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it because it would be too costly....
View ArticleSwapping Red Tape for Caution Tape: Why B.C. Can Expect More Mount Polleys
As we pull up to the mouth of the Hazeltine Creek, where billions of litres of mining waste from the Imperial Metals Mount Polley mine spilled into Quesnel Lake on August 4th, I’m thinking to myself...
View ArticleDigging Out of Canada’s Mining Dilemma
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the future. What else could explain...
View ArticleOil Prices Drop As Global Warming Rises
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.With oil prices plunging from more than $100 a barrel last summer to below $50 now, the consequences of a petro-fuelled economy are hitting home — especially in...
View ArticleCanada is Trading Away its Environmental Rights
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected neurotoxin that had already been banned in Europe. Ethyl...
View ArticleLet’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out Of Fear
This is a guest post by David SuzukiA scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world. But the RCMP has a different take. A secret...
View ArticleWho Says a Better World is Impossible?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these...
View ArticleWater Is Life; We Can’t Afford To Waste It
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only...
View ArticleOiling The Machinery Of Climate Change Denial And Transit Opposition
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.Brothers Charles and David Koch run Koch Industries, the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S., behind Cargill. They’ve given close to US$70 million to...
View ArticleChina’s Disastrous Pollution Problem Is A Lesson For All
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.Beijing’s 21 million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly caused by...
View ArticleRight-wing Circles Angry but Pope's Climate Intervention Makes Complete Sense
This is a guest post by Charles J. Reid Jr., professor of law at the University of St. Thomas.It is a line repeated with tiresome regularity in right-wing circles: Pope Francis has no business...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Climate Change
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been...
View ArticleCue Collective Eye Roll: Harper Appoints Kinder Morgan Consultant to Pipeline...
The purpose of the National Energy Board, like any regulator, is to be unprofitable. They perform unprofitable environmental assessments to make sure we have access to unprofitable clean drinking water...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Climate Deniers All Over the Map
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Heartland Institute conference in Las Vegas where climate change deniers engaged in a failed attempt to poke holes in the...
View ArticleAmber Rudd: Climate Crisis, What Climate Crisis?
It’s safe to say climate change is not on the Conservative Party conference agenda this year. If you showed up just 12 minutes late to Monday afternoon’s main event, you would’ve missed energy...
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