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Draining the World of Fresh Water
Draining the World of Fresh Water Two recent studies show human activity is drying up the planet’s lakes, rivers and aquifers. Efficient irrigation systems have not conserved water but encouraged the expansion of irrigated land, resulting in more havoc with the global water system. Image via Shutterstock. “When you drink the water, remember the spring.” — […]
I Warned Against the Green Energy ‘Boom.’ It Sparked Debate
I Warned Against the Green Energy ‘Boom.’ It Sparked Debate Challengers raised points that merit responses. Mine lead to one answer: degrowth. Mining for rare earth metals for ever more battery-driven gadgetry is a vastly destructive and ultimately doomed response to the climate crisis argues the author. Photo via Shutterstock. The best intentions in the world […]
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘we have to come up with a different plan.’ Cobalt mining in Congo, says journalist Siddharth Kara, ‘drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only their replacement cost.’ Photo via Harvard Kennedy School. “Sometime during […]
What People Don’t Get about This Inflation Spike
What People Don’t Get about This Inflation Spike Rising costs signal the ‘long emergency’ we face after glutting on cheap energy. Part one of two. Volatile energy prices are no mere brief glitch in the global economy. They are now a feature because we’ve met the end of easily extracted, cheap fossil fuels. Image via Shutterstock. […]
Are Electric Cars the Solution?
Are Electric Cars the Solution? Or do visions of ‘clean’ robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road? Makers of EVs also push ahead on self-augmenting automation. In other words, a car capable of driving itself while you doze. Is that truly ‘freedom’? Fifty years ago, the French political ecologist André Gorz explained that […]
Andrew Nikiforuk on Getting Real about Our Crises
Andrew Nikiforuk on Getting Real about Our Crises WATCH: The noted journo delivered a talk on what we’re up against, and what we need to do. Warning: His prescription is bracing. WATCH: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Southam Lecture. Some attendees wondered where he finds hope. His answer: Hope is using every initiative ‘to restore the possibility of […]
The Future According to Andrew Nikiforuk
The Future According to Andrew Nikiforuk He gives the Southam Lecture at UVic Wednesday. It’s sold out in person but sign up for free to watch his talk live online. Journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk speaks Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. The Tyee contributing editor will discuss myths about how we’re tackling climate change, and […]
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two. A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere. [Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.] Thanks to bright green […]
Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will
Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts. Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock. Since 1995 there have been 25 global […]
The Afghan Correction
The Afghan Correction Interventionistas never seem to learn these seven truths about war and ‘nation building.’ Soviet troops in the highlands near Kabul, Afghanistan, 1986. Photo by Кувакин Е. (1986); scanned and processed by Vizu (2009); размещено согласно Permissions: E. Kuvakin by personal collection, CC BY-SA 3.0. The chaotic rout of the U.S. in Afghanistan has got […]
The World Won’t Buy Alberta’s Second-Rate Coal: Experts
The World Won’t Buy Alberta’s Second-Rate Coal: Experts What Kenney wants mined is such poor quality ‘it won’t make the cut’ for global markets, panel told. Alberta’s proposed coking coal projects are often compared to the Elk Valley mine in BC, but the amounts and quality aren’t at all the same, say two industry veterans. Photo […]
Speaking for the Old Growth
Speaking for the Old Growth Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan. ‘These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,’ says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe. The world recognized tree botanist, biochemist […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIX
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIX Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Andrew Nikiforuk is an author and contributing editor of the online media site The Tyee. He has been writing about the oil and gas industry for close to 20 years. In his most recent article he writes about the lies being told by the Canadian government regarding its […]
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 […]
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 […]
