The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce our energy use, while stimulating whole new industries and technologies that are more efficient and affordable.
Environmentalism isn’t a discipline or specialty. It’s a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don’t think ‘In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.’
My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.
Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage – curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called ‘the future.’
But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.
Come on Canada, it’s time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!
Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.
We all live downstream.
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
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.
We have become a force of nature.