Most People Want Climate Action. We Need to Speak Up
If you understand that the climate crisis is a serious challenge and believe governments, industry…
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How Do We Insure Against Climate Catastrophe?
The world is on fire. Sometimes it seems not enough people care. We’re still electing…
More Than an Energy Shift, We Need a Paradigm Shift
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
Chart Shows Affordable Ways to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to keep the world from heating to catastrophic levels is entirely…
It’s Better to be Woke Than to Sleepwalk Through Life
How can a bank for wealthy venture capitalists, tech bros and people such as ultraconservative billionaire…
Solutions to Climate Crisis Exist, But We Need the Will to Change
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
Pollution: Is Your Boat Harming The Oceans?
Going boating is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend time on the water.…
Fossil Gas is not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Cooking with gas has some advantages over cooking on conventional electric stoves, as gas stoves…
Biodiversity Summit Offers Host Country Canada a Chance to Step Up
As the 27th UN climate conference of the parties (COP27) wraps up, we can’t lose…
It’s Time to Extinguish Oil and Gas Industry “Gaslighting”
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Investigating Royal Bank for Misleading Advertising on Climate Action
Ecojustice is supporting six members of the public in a complaint to the competition bureau…
Canada Can’t Let Industry and Provinces Stall Carbon Pricing
In Canada and many places worldwide, those who pollute the atmosphere must pay. By putting…
People Suffer as Climate Disrupters Rake in Massive Profits
The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a…
Will the World Again Hit “Snooze” on Latest Climate Alarm?
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
New Climate Report Shows Urgent Need to Adapt and Change
The longer we put off seriously addressing climate disruption’s causes, the more we’ll have to…
Is There a Rational Argument Against Climate Action?
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
Despite “Code Red,” Governments Continue to Support Fossil Fuels
What’s the best way to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us…
Trade and Investment Rules Shouldn’t Undermine Climate Ambition
If world representatives at the UN climate conference in Glasgow put talk into action, we…
Let’s Tip the Scales Toward Justice
Humanity seems to be teetering on the brink. On one hand, we know that rapidly…
Federal Election Requires Serious Shift on Climate, Justice and Health
Protecting the air, water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be…
Climate Report Shows World Pushed to the Brink by Fossil Fuels
There’s little in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report that we didn’t already…
Hydrogen Hype: Climate Solution or Dead-End Highway?
Around the turn of this century, hydrogen was big, especially in B.C. We were testing hydrogen…
Fossil Fuel Industry Faces an Overdue Reckoning
Oil giant ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing…
Sun Rises on Renewable Energy and Storage
One long-held excuse for not getting off oil, gas and coal faster is that energy…
Energy Road Map Charts Challenging Course to Oil-Free Future
Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per…
Leading Thinkers Call for Fossil Fuel Halt
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
Canadian Budget 2021 Must Help Create a Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable Future
Photo by Jules Marvin Eguilos on Unsplash We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reimagine our…
Alberta Inquiry Steps into a Past Era’s Dark Denial
That anyone today could deny the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for human-caused climate disruption is…
Net Zero offers Affordable Path to Climate Stability
Another year, another record. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel…
U.S. crisis shows need to speak truth to power
As was demonstrated in the U.S. last week, many who are motivated by fear and…
Carlsberg and Coca-Cola Will Switch to Plant-Based Bottles That Break Down Within a Year
Within a year, Carlsberg Beer and Coca-Cola will transition to plant-based bottles that break down.…
We are living in a plastic world
Almost every product and material we refer to as “plastic” is made from fossil fuels.…
Children should be seen and heard
Too many adults become complacent, unwilling to even imagine making sacrifices for their children and grandchildren — even though many changes required to bring emissions and warming under control would confer numerous benefits, from healthier diets to reduced pollution to greater employment and economic opportunities in clean energy.
Decades of denial and stalling have created a climate crunch
In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings…
Political climate is heating up
Global warming isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing…
Are governments giving up on global warming?
The U.S. president may think global warming is a hoax perpetrated by China, but his…
Carbon pricing is an important tool to tackle climate change
One of the world’s best-known climate scientists is discouraged that almost 40 years of study…
Consumer society no longer serves our needs
My parents were born in Vancouver — Dad in 1909, Mom in 1911 — and…
Renewable energy isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than fossil fuels
In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists have circulated a dual image purporting to compare a lithium mine with an oilsands operation. It illustrates the level of dishonesty to which some will stoop to keep us on our current polluting, climate-disrupting path (although in some cases it could be ignorance).
Renewable energy isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than fossil fuels
In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists…
We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity
August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.” That is the definition of unsustainable and means we’re using up the biological capital that should be our children’s legacy. We would require 1.7 Earths to meet our current annual demands sustainably.
We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity
August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a…
Oil and plastic are choking the planet
People who deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me. When confronted with the obvious damage we’re doing to the biosphere — from climate change to water and air pollution to swirling plastic patches in the oceans — some dismiss the reality or employ logical fallacies to discredit the messengers.
Oil and plastic are choking the planet
People who deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me.…
Faulty logic fuels fossil fools
Apparently, fossil fuel companies protect watersheds and rivers by removing oil. That’s according to comments on the David Suzuki Foundation Facebook page and elsewhere, including this: “The amount of contamination occuring [sic] from extraction is far less than if we just left the oil there to continue polluting the waterways.”