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A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay Auditor general says oil and gas commission hasn’t ensured companies will pay cleanup costs. The polluter-pay approach isn’t working in British Columbia’s oil and gas patch. The province’s energy regulator hasn’t secured enough money from companies to cover the estimated $3-billion cleanup costs for 10,672 inactive […]
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities
Your Recycling Might Be Poisoning Poor Communities You know the routine, which has become a required liturgical rubric of the American civic religion. You separate your trash: plastics here, glass here, cans here, papers here. Doing so is our little way of showing we care about the environment. Not doing so – let’s just say […]
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine. At December’s Katowice Climate Change Conference, Polish President Andrzej Duda proudly opened the proceedings by declaring that coal “does not contradict the protection of the climate and the progress […]
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes Spanish market: Vegetable-rich diets make for a healthier planet. Image: By ja ma on Unsplash Researchers are clear: the healthy diet for a healthy planet is more vegetables, less meat. What matters is the food that’s served, and the way it’s produced too. LONDON, 17 January, 2019 […]
It’s Time to Get Serious About CO2 Pollution
It’s Time to Get Serious About CO2 Pollution Fifty years ago, a bipartisan U.S. Congress enacted novel, far-reaching legislation that changed our country and the world for the better. At that time, the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act were new, untested approaches to combating pollution. The U.S. had a huge problem in the […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
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 of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s. “The substance of the report is that there is still […]
The Perils of Plastic Pollution
The Perils of Plastic Pollution Plastics are found in the products we use every day: the toys we give our children, the clothing we wear, the disposable cups we drink from, the automobiles we make, the straws we use, the list goes on. Cheap and easy to make, plastic goods and plastic production have exploded […]
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated
Supercharged by Pollution, Florida’s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated “Covering stuff up doesn’t make it go away,” said Lilly Womble, an 18-year-old on vacation on Florida’s Sanibel Island. The island is world renowned for its sea shells but that day we were watching employees from the Sanibel Moorings Resort pull a sheet over a dead loggerhead sea […]
Is Capitalism Killing Us?
Is Capitalism Killing Us? Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss. External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial […]
Fueled by Pollution and Unsound Policies, Toxic Algae Overtakes Florida Beaches and Waterways
Fueled by Pollution and Unsound Policies, Toxic Algae Overtakes Florida Beaches and Waterways Florida is in the midst of a still-unfolding water pollution catastrophe. Many formerly picture-perfect beaches and posh waterfront neighborhoods are now surreal toxic landscapes where the smell is so pungent, it can make you nauseous. Parts of South Florida are being inundated by harmful […]
Making It To The 4th Second
Prince Ea Making It To The 4th Second A hard-hitting delivery of the predicament humanity faces Our work here at PeakProsperity.com focuses on raising awareness of the serious challenges facing humanity as we continue to live well beyond our economic, energetic and ecological means. Through the Three Es framework presented in The Crash Course, we’ve […]
