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Fact Checking Patrick Moore, Climate Skeptic
Fact Checking Patrick Moore, Climate Skeptic The ex-Greenpeacer claims his new book is science-based. It’s gaining traction. But when contacted, researchers he cites said he got their work wrong. Moore wrongly claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn’t conclude the climate is changing faster than in the past. Actually, it did. Photo: Shutterstock. Five […]
BC’s ‘Intentions Paper’ on Future of Forests Is Panned for Lack of Specifics
BC’s ‘Intentions Paper’ on Future of Forests Is Panned for Lack of Specifics Greens say failure to protect old growth breaks NDP campaign promise as protests continue. Fairy Creek protests show the government’s policies on old-growth logging don’t reflect the will of British Columbians, says Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee. Photo by Jen Osborne. As […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author ‘Renewables’. They will save us! This is one of the most common beliefs being bandied about by the ruling class and especially those that stand to profit from a shift to them in an attempt to power our complex society. I would argue, however, […]
The Fate of the Canadian Rockies May Rest on This Decision
The Fate of the Canadian Rockies May Rest on This Decision Approving the Grassy Mountain Coal Project could enable industrializing Alberta’s sensitive and vital eastern slopes. Ranching on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies in southern Alberta near the proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Project. Locals told a joint panel they fear the mine will […]
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable?
If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable? That an economic activity has to be profitable is considered a truism, something taken for granted and not reflected upon. But what if the opposite is the case? When I first took up small-scale organic farming in the 1970s, I spent a lot of energy in developing new methods […]
Teaching (or Cultivating) Sustainability (or Inhabitance), Ten Years On
Teaching (or Cultivating) Sustainability (or Inhabitance), Ten Years On For ten years now, I’ve been teaching one version or another of a class on personal simplicity and economic and environmental sustainability here at Friends University, a formerly Quaker, non-denominational Christian, small liberal arts college in Wichita, KS. Though I teach at a religious university, I don’t teach religion […]
Not Just Energy, but Everything.
Not Just Energy, but Everything. The criticality of the global energy situation is emphasised by the release, on schedule (18-5-21), of the eagerly awaited “Net Zero by 2050” roadmap (NZE) from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Not only does this document delineate the gargantuan quantities of energy currently used by humans on Earth, mainly from the fossil […]
Not just another drought: The American West moves from dry to bone dry
Not just another drought: The American West moves from dry to bone dry The American West is having a drought. So, what else is new? And, that’s just the point. The American West has been in an extended drought since 2000, so far the second worst in the last 1200 years. Here is the key […]
The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy
The idea of ‘green growth’ is flawed. We must find ways of using and wasting less energy As countries explore ways of decarbonising their economies, the mantra of “green growth” risks trapping us in a spiral of failures. Green growth is an oxymoron. Growth requires more material extraction, which in turn requires more energy. The fundamental […]
Reindigenizing the Anthropocene
Reindigenizing the Anthropocene This essay is a response to “Redefining the Anthropocene,” by Erik Molvar, which was published on Counterpunch on May 13, 2021. I recommend that it be read first. First let me first stress that I am not calling out Molvar personally or even specifically here. As a staunch opponent of livestock grazing […]
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of thousands of years ago in Stone Age Africa
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of thousands of years ago in Stone Age Africa Fields of rust-colored soil, spindly cassava, small farms and villages dot the landscape. Dust and smoke blur the mountains visible beyond massive Lake Malawi. Here in tropical Africa, you can’t escape the signs of human presence. […]
US Experts to Trudeau: Your Nuclear Dream May Turn Nightmare
US Experts to Trudeau: Your Nuclear Dream May Turn Nightmare Rethink backing the Moltex reactor, urge nine non-proliferation heavyweights. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC. His government is backing a new generation of reactors US experts now warn could fuel nuclear weapons proliferation. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian […]
Change BC Fracking or Expect Damaging Earthquakes: Report
Change BC Fracking or Expect Damaging Earthquakes: Report The new warning comes from a former senior scientist with the province’s oil and gas commission. ‘Induced earthquakes don’t have an upper limit,’ posing risk to communities nearby, concludes a hydrologist. This fracking site is outside of Fort St. John, BC. Photo by Jeremy Sean Williams, Wilderness Committee. Since […]
Jason Kenney’s Favourite Researcher Just Gave Him a Headache
Jason Kenney’s Favourite Researcher Just Gave Him a Headache What does the UCP do now that Vivian Krause says she never said Canadian enviro groups were being used by US oil interests? Premier Jason Kenney based his ‘Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns’ on the theory the province was being targeted to benefit US interests. Photo […]
