A vacancy at the top: energy-rich country seeks climate leader
We have a shrill war against the mildest environmental remedies from the right, a plodding agenda from the Liberals, a vanished Green Party, and an NDP that needs to shake off its lethargy and, perhaps, its likable, but lacklustre, leader. It all amounts to a large, dangerous vacancy at the top. If Poilievre ends up filling it, we will be well and truly fried.
Pricing pollution is key
When things cost more, people conserve. When energy costs more, they cut back on use. When transportation costs more, people’s driving habits change.
It’s not too late for Canada to take the lead
We need to quantify the thermal energy produced from the ground by a heat pump as renewable energy. Widespread adoption of this zero-carbon technology would produce more renewable energy than all the hydro dams, wind turbines, and solar panels currently operating in Canada.
‘We live in a time of absurd and frightful confusion’: Victoria, B.C., letter writer
We live in a time of absurd and frightful confusion, with political divisions widening every day like a planet fragmenting into shards in the latest Armageddon-based blockbuster. The relentless advance of lies is beyond the human capacity to remain reasonable. The hyper-connected overload from social media and disinformation, and the rapidly accumulating trauma of history […]
The futility of carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage is a wasteful and expensive green-washing program.
Oppenheimer’s legacy: an unheeded warning for our climate
Much like the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, there is a causal link between the pollution we emit into the atmosphere, and the fatalities from climate change and natural disasters.
Sustainable aviation fuels can help Canada meet its climate goals, but leadership is needed
Investment in SAF production in Canada has so far proceeded at a very slow pace that is at odds with its potential breakthrough impact on the aviation sector’s carbon footprint.
Governments, scientists should put more brain power into green energy, writes B.C. reader
Canada wants to reportedly move forward with more nuclear power plants? Nuclear power is nuclear waste and a major disaster waiting to happen. Why would anyone want a depository of nuclear waste in their backyard for hundreds of years? Would you really want a nuclear power plant in your neighbourhood? I think not. The government […]
Technology—not taxes—is the right approach to climate change
We need to harden our infrastructure, conserve and protect nature while sensitively harvesting natural resources, and apply modern technology to solve our environmental issues.
Will the world’s people destroy their only home?
The G20 summit in India next month is being viewed as a sort of last chance for the world’s largest economies to commit to the accelerated, radical action needed to limit warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.
