Sorry to disappoint you, but it is not Might Mouse who will save the day, if only we listen. It is Barney Frankie the dinosaur, with a timely message regarding our pending extinction. I have to confess, the following left me, not with any sense of optimism but rather deep despair.
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Views from the Beltline: It will be lonely when the birds are gone
I live deep in the city yet I enjoy visits from a number of our feathered friends. In the winter I am occasionally honoured by the visit of a wee chickadee. A bashful fellow, he flits half-hidden among the branches of a tall spruce that towers over my apartment. Frequently
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Environmental destruction—more than a war crime?
The UN’s International Law Commission currently has on its agenda an item concerned with protecting the environment in times of war. The commission has drawn up 28 draft principles, the purpose of which is, according to Principle 2, “enhancing the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict, including
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pay To Slay
That’s what critics are calling Bill 108, the “More Homes, More Choice Act,” introduced stealthily, as the cowardly are wont to do, by the Ford regime in Ontario. Buried in an omnibus bill, the favoured vehicle of the dishonest, (including both Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper), the bill promises to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "I’ve Gone To The Dark Side": A Guest Post From The Mound Of Sound
I received this essay from Mound yesterday. He asked me to read it carefully before deciding whether to post it, given its dark, apocalyptic overtones. I acquiesced in the Mound’s request and concluded there was no way I would not put it on my blog, dealing as it does with
Continue reading350 or bust: Ecosystem Collapse: A Clarion Call For A New Way of Being Human
* It’s been three and a half years since I began talking about, blogging about, and working for action on, climate change. It took me a while to call myself a “climate activist” but it’s a label that I now wear proudly, although I am starting to prefer the term
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Most Endangered
The Guardian has published a photo essay of the 100-most endangered species at risk today. If you look at these creatures most may appear insignificant, hardly worth bothering about. That is if you don’t understand biodiversity and the critical role it plays in making all our lives, well, liveable. Everything
Continue reading350 or bust: We’ve Been Messin’ Where We Shouldn’t Have Been A-Messin’
Climate change, You Scary: In which Hank Green details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change. * Find the Sci Show: Where the science goes on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Want to know what to do? Go to: Citizens Climate Lobby to join
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