The concept of sustainable development demands that we move beyond compartmentalization and outmoded patterns to draw the very best of our intellectual and moral resources from every field of endeavour. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Physician and First female Prime Minister of Norway The members of CaCOR span a wide range of academic backgrounds and experience; please […]
Computation enriches science
Through its four centuries of serious endeavour, from Galileo onwards, when evidence was mingled with mathematics, and the extraordinary reticulation of concepts and achievements emerged, science has acquired maturity, and from the elucidation of simple observations it is now capable of dealing with the complex. Indeed, the emergence of computation as a component of the […]
Lessons from the CACOR Pathways Study
The straight goods, not the sunny ways John Hollins, 2020 March 6 2030 The likelihood that Canada as a country will meet the commitment that it made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions by 30% between 2005 and 2030 is vanishingly small. The earliest politically and practically feasible year may be 2050. Large differences […]
Could Canada find a pathway from Paris to 2030? If not then, when?
Canada’s Greenhouse Gases John Hollins[1], 2020 February 14 Findings and Insights from the Pathways Study of the Canadian Club of Rome Summary Canada’s public policy to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases has not delivered. Canada failed by a wide margin to meet the commitment that it made in Kyoto in 1997. It has abandoned […]
This is How a Society Dies
When I ask my European friends to describe us — Americans, Brits, who I’ll call Anglo-Americans in this essay — they shake their heads gently. And over and over, three themes emerge. They say we’re a little thoughtless. They say we’re selfish and arrogant. And they say that we’re cruel and brutal. I can’t help […]