The world didn’t fall apart this year. You were just getting your news from the wrong places. For the last 12 months, the global media has been focused on a lot of bad news. But there were other things happening out there too: conservation successes, huge wins for global health, more peace and tolerance, less war […]
The Menace of Deep-Sea Mining: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“A new chapter of Earth pillage is in the works: the commercial venture of deep-sea mining. The deep sea lies 200 meters below sea level into the abyssal depths and comprises roughly 65 percent of Earth’s surface. It is being encroached by a nexus of nation-states and industries slavering over its “mind-boggling quantities of untapped […]
What We Want to Sustain
Inclusion, empowerment and equality, must be ‘at the heart of our efforts’ to ensure sustainable development, says UN chief UN Newsnews.un.org/en © UNICEF The women of Bokiat Village, Timbuktu, present fresh onions from their vegetable garden where UNICEF, with the support of Sweden, rehabilitated a manual water pump. (13 March 2019) 16 July 2019 […]
Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?
We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you need some kind of reference point. It’s natural we take some past point and monitor things into the future. But when you reference back to […]
The terms of doing business — overseas
Dr. John Hollins, past chair of CACOR considers “The terms of doing business — overseas” This is a commentary on the place of Canadian business in the big wide world, not only in the “developing” world, but also in some “developed” countries. The SNC-Lavalin brouhaha has much broader dimensions than being the blame game du […]