On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us – Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.
We can no longer tolerate what’s going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act.
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.
We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
We have become a force of nature.
We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.
Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.
Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we’ve ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.