Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR, reviews Bill C-69. Some thoughts An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. Fundamental issue Thoreau captured the essence of the matter in 15 words some 150 years ago: […]
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon Liberty Vittert 8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade. That’s 24,000 square miles, or about 10.3 million American football fields.This statistic, while giving only a snapshot of the issue, provides insight into the dramatic change to this landscape […]
Gordon and Art chat on DO SOMETHING
On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:27 PM Gordon Kubanek wrote (into a CACOR Google Group): Hello CACOR friends, I can see that the sense that we must DO something is building among us. Here is a thought, which I am sure you have heard before, but with a personal story to add credibility. 10+ […]
Global Heating Targets, how to set and then hit them
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors addresses pathways: What target could Canada actually hit in 2030? When could it actually get to 30% below 2005? The Pathways project of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) examined a reference case – business as planned – and eight further actions to […]
Trump article from the Atlantic
from The Atlantic, 2017 Please excuse a political article here, but I thought this was a barn-burner last year. Read the article…