SUZUKI – The election is over; now let’s get to work!
THE ELECTION MAY BE OVER but there’s no time to be complacent. Canadians voters — and many people too young to vote — demanded that politicians take climate disruption [Continue]
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SUZUKI – On October 21, vote for solutions to climate change
POLITICIANS ARE FINALLY talking about climate change. How could they not? In Canada, more than 800,000 young people and their supporters took to the streets on September 27, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fracked gas heats the planet but supporters say it’s a solution
THE BEST WAY to address climate disruption is… burn more fossil fuels? It doesn’t make sense, but that’s what industry, media and governments want us to believe. To [Continue]
SUZUKI – Captive breeding only works when animals can go home
B.C. IS SPENDING hundreds of thousands of dollars on a captive breeding program to protect spotted owls. With an estimated six of the owls left in the wild in Canada, all in [Continue]
SUZUKI – New IPCC report flags diet and land-use changes to curb climate chaos
LAND AND AGRICULTURE are critical components in the climate crisis. According to a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, land use — including agriculture [Continue]
SUZUKI – Deniers deflated as climate reality hits home
CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fracking is neither climate solution nor economic blessing
THE RUSH TO EXPLOIT and sell fossil fuels as quickly as possible before the reality of climate disruption becomes too great to deny or ignore has generated some Orwellian [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fossil fuels still rule but we can resolve the climate crisis
THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of solutions to the climate crisis. Rapidly developing clean-energy technology, reducing energy consumption and waste, increasing efficiency, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Climate change, biodiversity should be top headline news
WHEN THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change released a special report in October warning of how quickly we’re advancing toward irreversible climate chaos, it led the [Continue]
SUZUKI – Government support for electric vehicles drives down emissions
ELECTRIC VEHICLES WON’T SAVE US from runaway climate change, but they’re part of the solution, along with support for public transit and active transport like walking [Continue]
SUZUKI – Saving Notre Dame is worthy but so is saving the environment
WHEN PARIS’S NOTRE DAME caught fire on April 15, the flames threatened more than eight centuries of culture and history. The fire evoked shock, horror and grief [Continue]
SUZUKI – When does plant and animal species loss become a societal crisis?
IT’S HEARTENING, in the midst of the human-caused sixth mass extinction, to find good wildlife recovery news. As plant and animal species disappear faster than they [Continue]
SUZUKI – Children are fighting for their future and we must support them
“And a little child shall lead them.” – Isaiah 11:6 AT 16, GRETA THUNBERG may not be a little child, but she’s showing tremendous leadership. The Swedish student has [Continue]
SUZUKI – Government should heed Unist’ot’en message about the Earth
I VISITED the Unist’ot’en camp near Kitimat, B.C., a year ago. The people, led by Chief Freda Huson, are trying to re-establish a sustainable relationship with territory [Continue]
