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Tackling Climate Change Requires Healing the Divide

Tackling Climate Change Requires Healing the Divide

Canadian climate change opinion is polarized, and research shows the divide is widening. The greatest predictor of people’s outlook is political affiliation. This means people’s climate change perceptions are being increasingly driven by divisive political agendas rather than science and concern for our collective welfare. Over the past year, the Alberta Narratives Project gathered input […]

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    Fracking’s Dark Secret

    Fracking’s Dark Secret

    We’ve long known extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the problems and adds new ones—excessive water use and contamination, earthquakes, destruction of habitat and agricultural lands and methane emissions among them. As fossil fuel reserves become depleted, thanks to our voracious and wasteful habits, […]

    David Suzuki: It’s Time to End BC’s Cruel Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt

    David Suzuki: It’s Time to End BC’s Cruel Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt

    Grizzly bears venturing from dens in search of food this spring will face landscapes dominated by mines, roads, pipelines, clearcuts and ever-expanding towns and cities. As in years past, they’ll also face the possibility of painful death at the hands of trophy hunters. British Columbia’s spring bear hunt just opened. Hunters are fanning across the […]

    David Suzuki: Why We Must March for Science

    David Suzuki: Why We Must March for Science

    Science isn’t everything. But it is crucial to governing, decision-making, protecting human health and the environment and resolving questions and challenges around our existence. Those determined to advance industrial interests over all else often attack science. We’ve seen it in Canada, with a decade of cuts to research funding and scientific programs, muzzling of government […]

    World’s Largest Geoengineering Study Triggers Major Controversy

    World’s Largest Geoengineering Study Triggers Major Controversy

    In an effort to cool the atmosphere, Harvard University will inject aerosols 12 miles into the atmosphere, leading the charge on the largest geoengineering study to ever take place. The first two “small-scale” dispersals will consist of water and calcium carbonate—two naturally occurring aerosols that regulate Earth’s radiation balance. The idea is to mimic a […]

    This First Nation Is Still Under Boil-Water Advisory After 21 Years

    This First Nation Is Still Under Boil-Water Advisory After 21 Years

    Neskantaga First Nation in Ontario has had to boil water since 1995. “We’re over 20 years already where our people haven’t been able to get the water they need to drink from their taps or to bathe themselves without getting any rashes,” Neskantaga Chief Wayne Moonias told CBC News in 2015. Their water issues have […]

    David Suzuki: How Biomimicry Can Save Us

    David Suzuki: How Biomimicry Can Save Us

    If you fly over a forest and look down, you’ll see every green tree and plant reaching to the heavens to absorb the ultimate energy source: sunlight. What a contrast when you look down on a city or town with its naked roofs, asphalt roads and concrete sidewalks, all ignoring the sun’s beneficence! Research shows […]

    David Suzuki: 5 Things We Must Do Immediately to Stop Humanity’s Collision Course

    David Suzuki: 5 Things We Must Do Immediately to Stop Humanity’s Collision Course

    The longer we delay addressing environmental problems, the more difficult it will be to resolve them. Although we’ve known about climate change and its potential impacts for a long time, and we’re seeing those impacts worsen daily, our political representatives are still approving and promoting fossil fuel infrastructure as if we had all the time […]

    David Suzuki: Stop Buying So Much Stuff

    David Suzuki: Stop Buying So Much Stuff

    How much stuff will you give and receive this holiday season? Add it to the growing pile—the 30-trillion-ton pile. That’s how much technology and goods humans have produced, according to a study by an international team led by England’s University of Leicester. It adds up to more than all living matter on the planet, estimated […]