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Viral pandemics and climate change – different pace, different response, a message perhaps?
We tried to follow our usual Saturday morning routine on Saturday morning. We were foiled, in part, because of the way our community is responding to the onset of Covid-19. There are lessons here on tipping points, on climate change, on pandemics, on human and societal response to emergencies. And our town has zero cases … Continue reading
Climate Change Update: Where we are in early 2020
As I write this, Covid-19 is extending its impacts around the world, cruise ships are being quarantined, global stock markets are in a tailspin and the price of oil is collapsing. The new Coronavirus is going to have some major impacts on our world, including a likely drop in CO2 emissions in 2020. Whether it … Continue reading
Yes, we have a climate emergency; Alberta and the rest of Canada both need to listen up.
@JKenney, Premier of Alberta, tweeted out this cartoon by Vance Rodewalt last January, while saying that the rest of Canada needs to understand that a hurting Alberta is bad for the *entire* country. Poor Alberta and Saskatchewan We’ve been hearing a lot in Canada about western alienation. Apparently, citizens living in Alberta and perhaps Saskatchewan … Continue reading