Vaillant’s Fire Weather looks at devastating synergy between our dependence on fossil fuels and its impact on the climate
Below is an excerpt from Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant, published by Knopf Canada, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
An enthralling exploration of the Petrocene Age
In Fire Weather, John Vaillant combines history, science, and Promethean fable to place the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires as a harbinger of a new fire century.
Coral reef condoms: how to save a dying ecosystem
The efforts making the most progress is an attempt at ‘assisted’ evolution. It’s really a glorified form of selective breeding, choosing the most heat-resistant of each generation of coral polyps as the parents of the next.
Canada’s investment in AI should inform a global ‘rights-based’ approach
Canada has a role to play in pushing its influence on the world stage. Right now, we are currently fifth in terms of AI capacity on the Tortoise Global Index, yet is 23rd in actual AI infrastructure.
Buried in the budget: a potential breakthrough in meeting Canada’s net-zero goals
Budget 2024’s support of carbon removal procurement as a climate solution is a welcome breath of fresh air.
We need to bring back extensive urban, inter-urban rail and buses: letter writer
Re: “EV battery fires are a global problem that we need to address in Canada,” (The Hill Times, April 15, opinion piece). I agree with the opinion expressed by Josipa Petrunic that some planning for eventual fires needs to be done. The author points out stricter controls on battery design and sourcing. However, I think the […]
All eyes on Ottawa: the world comes together to address plastic pollution
The plastics industry recognizes that we cannot continue treating plastics as an afterthought once we have used them. Plastics belong in the economy, not in the environment.
Sustainable development, here and now
Universities across Canada are generating solutions to support green technology development and deployment.
Rallying against the blaze: uniting Canadians to fight climate change
There is an urgent need to address climate change, the root cause of the wildfire crisis, across all jurisdictions.
How green was this budget?
Being better on climate policy than the Official Opposition is too low a bar for a confidence vote.
