When I was growing up, I was fairly patriotic. I loved Canada and felt a very special connection with its vast wilderness, incredible biodiversity and beauty. Somewhat naively, I assumed that most Canadians felt this way, especially politicians, who arguably had good reason to protect Canada’s precious
Read more →A long, long time ago, I read Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For me, it was a seminal book in terms of my personal outlook on life. For those who have never read the book, it is an exploration into the metaphysics
Read more →How many people live on this planet? When I was born, there were about 3 billion of us sharing space. Since that time, our numbers have grown to eclipse the 7 billion point. For a lot of reasons, human population is experiencing exponential growth. Since infinite growth
Read more →In an earlier article, I proposed that a move to a global green economy could end up producing many jobs. According to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), there seems to be agreement with this idea. According to the report, a net gain
Read more →In the years following the industrial revolution, developed countries have seen per capita energy consumption increasing steadily. The US, Canada and UK are some of the highest consumers of energy. And despite well-intentioned suggestions that we turn to biofuels, wind energy and solar power as replacements for
Read more →“Garbage In, Garbage Out.” That’s a saying that we’ve gotten used to over the years, and it has a lot of relevance in our lives. If we put junk into the system, it’s nearly impossible to get high quality stuff coming out at the end of the
Read more →Over the years, the debate over climate change versus global warming and global dimming has offered up plenty of finger-pointing and little in the way of agreement. In any larger group discussion of the matter, you’ll almost invariably find participants running the range from people who think
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