Most people in North America are aware that we have been having a particularly warm and dry year. Many of us attribute this to global climate change. Some of us are concerned about this. Others of us maintain it is… Read More »Environmental Crisis? Not for Our Political Leaders
Two recent papers in the prestigious journal Nature caught my eye. That scientists are even publishing such papers, and that journals of the caliber of Nature publish them, says a lot about the state of our world. I’ll deal first… Read More »The State of the Earth — What are we doing?
It’s rare that I turn to the business pages to find inspiration concerning our environmental crisis. But today’s Globe & Mail carried two stories that cheered me up a little concerning Canada’s tar sands oil. Yes, Canadians are blessed with… Read More »Canada’s Troubling Tar Sands – Maybe Now is the Time for a Rethink?