A number of agencies and regulations have been overrun, annihilated and buried by our nice Conservative, Steven Harper led government in the noble name of saving money. Depending on how much you worry about the risk of being suddenly incinerated while sipping a cold drink, this might not be such a bad thing. Continue reading Business Über Alles: The Willfully Blind Approach
Great news, that last report by those UN scientists on Climate Change. Who ever said scientists were all grim bad news folk. The planet is warming up and we, yes, us humans, are very much responsible. Does anyone know what that means? Continue reading Yearning for Climate Change
Why aren’t the people we watch and adulate – from Mad Men, from Game of Thrones, from Glee and from all the other really juicy, addictive series and albums – talking about climate change? It’s boring, boring, boring, like last year’s fashions, Nokia phones, yesterday’s heroes and orts, and anything that’s been repeated too often, like that quaint Chicken Little shtick about the sky falling. Continue reading Let’s Party like there’s No Future
Ronald Wright in his splendid “A Short History of Progress,” makes a very strong argument that human civilization, in all its manifold forms, will collapse. That is, unless something is done to stop the accelerating environmental damage from the juggernaut of opportunistic development. Continue reading The End is Nigh; for sure; perhaps, could be, unless….