Ruben Nelson, Canadian Club of Rome member, affirms: SUMMARY I am a hopeful pessimist. (EDIT: Please send comments to Ruben) It is my considered judgement that in the coming years and decades we in Modern Techno-industrial (MTI) cultures will be blindsided by great tragedy and despair. These are now irrevocably baked into the next several […]
Ruben Nelson 2020-05-13 Civilization Overshoot
The Canadian Club of Rome Presentation “Civilization Overshoot” presented by Ruben Nelson on 13 May 2020 as one presentation in a series of ZOOM meetings. Canadian COR Zoom Series of Weekly 30+ Minute Presentations DATE DAY TIME PRESENTER TOPIC 15-Apr Wednesday completed Ted Manning Greening China Challenge (delivered) 22-Apr Wednesday completed Bill Pugsley Measuring Ottawa’s […]
John Hollins: Stumbling from Rio to Paris – 6 May 2020
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 […]
It’s time to emerge from our planetary emergency. Here’s a plan
While politics continues to cripple efforts to fight the planetary emergency, the science remains as unequivocal and irrefutable as ever. We have already crossed a number of “tipping points” in the Earth’s systems; vital thresholds beyond which irreversible and catastrophic consequences for all life on this planet will ensue. The impacts of climate change and […]