The razing of millions of acres of forests by wildfires has been increasing in scale and intensity for the past few decades. This year has set new records for the number of trees and shrubs destroyed by fire – not just in the United States and Canada, but also in many other countries, including England, … Continue reading Global warming and corporate greed combine to destroy forests with fire and felling

Twenty-six years ago, over 1,500 scientists signed an open letter warning humankind that we had to start protecting life on our planet instead of continuing to ravage it. Our corporate and political leaders ignored that warning, prompting scientists – now nearly 15,000 of them – to issue another desperate appeal for human as well as … Continue reading Scientists’ latest warning to humanity as unlikely to be heeded as were all their previous alarms

It is depressingly ironic that, while many other countries are  steadily switching from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy, Canada’s federal and provincial governments squabble over building yet another pipeline to British Columbia -– one that, with the existing Trans-Mountain pipeline, would nearly triple the delivery capacity from 300,000 barrels of oil … Continue reading Canada far behind other countries in switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources

How and why an uncontrolled capitalist economic system has become the deadliest enemy of all that is fair, progressive and wholesome in human society – to the extent of now threatening the survival of sentient life on the planet – could be explained in a long and tedious academic treatise. But it can also be … Continue reading Scorpions, icebergs, and cancer cells: Three metaphors that help explain why capitalism wrecks the planet