Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead. By Mary Annaise Heglar I’m at my friend’s birthday dinner when an all-too-familiar conversation unfolds. I introduce myself to the man to my left, tell him that I work in the environmental field, and his face freezes in terror. Our handshake goes limp. […]
Archives for June 2019
UK government to commit to 2050 target of net zero carbon
Greenhouse gas emissions in the UK will be cut to almost zero by 2050, under the terms of a new government plan to tackle climate change. Prime Minister Theresa May said there was a “moral duty to leave this world in a better condition than what we inherited”. Cutting emissions would benefit public health and […]
Traveling is a fool’s paradise
Can Belonging Save Us from Ourselves? Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of place: an affect to be intoxicated with the new sights and sounds, but I am not – For the hole within me goes with me wherever I go. – from Self Reliance by Henry D. […]
How YOU can Help – Letter to the Richest Britons
How YOU Can help – a British Plea to the Richest Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help 18 April 2019 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES The UN has warned that the goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” is in danger because major […]
Kearl Bitumen Mine by David Dougherty
David Dougherty, member of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, writes: Synopsis of the Review Panel Report on the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Kearl Bitumen Mine. June 2019 This is a very quick analysis of the archived review panel report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA). I have not covered everything in the panel […]