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To solve the climate crisis, we must solve the democracy crisis
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. Coming to that realization motivated me to become a Canadian Green Party candidate… Image via National Parks Service On Wikipedia Our democracy has been hijacked by special interests, primarily corporate, but [...]
Continue reading...Climate Warriors versus Market Fundamentalists
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. I’ll save you the trouble of reading further if you believe in the infallibility of markets and have dangerously high blood pressure: I’m on the side of moving very [...]
Continue reading...Al Gore unveils $300,000,000 Climate Crisis Ad Campaign
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The “advertising blitz [is] intended to force a debate on climate change during the presidential elections.” It is hard to overestimate the potential impact of this move. Image from Juampe Lopez on Flickr Mr. Gore has rounded up polar opposites from both sides of the political spectrum – from [...]
Continue reading...How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
You may have heard the rubbish: The earth is in a ‘cooling phase,’ lots of scientists disagree, look at all the snow we had this winter, and more. Image from Say Hey It’s all garbage, and mostly recycled trash at that. Unfortunately, there are still many who believe it [...]
Continue reading...James Lovelock Says Live It Up: We’ve Got “20 years before it hits the fan”
Sunday, March 2, 2008
This is a follow-up to my previous post, “If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?” Smile, this guy says we’re all screwed! It’s not the way I wanted to start my Saturday, reading that James Lovelock, the author of the [...]
Continue reading...If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?
Friday, February 29, 2008
It’s a new take on the age-old question that takes the form, “If you could do something without getting caught, would you?” A retreating ice shelf in Greenland. Photo by John Rudolph Usually, the ’something’ involves having an affair, stealing a large amount of money, or even killing [...]
Continue reading...The Climate Crisis is a Political Crisis
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The dinosaurs were wiped out by the after effects of a meteorite striking the Earth. We can see our meteorite coming. So why are things changing so slowly? All the solutions exist.
Continue reading...Canada at Bali: Oh, the Shame
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I am a Canadian, and I am ashamed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is from Canada. How far has democracy fallen, when we have a majority of the population that favors action on averting
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Monday, April 21, 2008
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