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SUZUKI – Government support for electric vehicles drives down emissions

May 8, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

April 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

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?

April 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

March 27, 2019 // 2 Comments

“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

March 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

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]

SUZUKI – Winter weather doesn’t disprove global warming

February 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

WEATHER AND CLIMATE aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to [Continue]

SUZUKI – Eating less meat would make our planet’s environment healthier

January 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

JUST AS AVOIDING climate catastrophe isn’t the only reason to phase out fossil fuels, it’s not the only reason to curtail meat consumption. Phasing out fossil fuels will [Continue]

SUZUKI – We must stand with hereditary chiefs to defend the land

January 16, 2019 // 4 Comments

RECENT CONTROVERSY over a natural gas pipeline blockade and the differing priorities of hereditary chiefs and elected band councillors illustrates a fundamental problem with [Continue]

SUZUKI – Climate change should be the top issue in this year’s federal election

January 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

GLOBAL WARMING isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing dire warnings about the implications of climate disruption work under political [Continue]

SUZUKI – Decades of denial and stalling have created a climate crunch

November 28, 2018 // 2 Comments

IN A 1965 SPEECH to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory [Continue]

SUZUKI – Ocean study criticism shows benefits of scientific method

November 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

ERRORS IN A RECENT ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay [Continue]

SUZUKI – Tackling climate change requires healing the divide

November 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [Continue]

SUZUKI – Human behaviour is at the root of orca plight on B.C.’s coast

November 7, 2018 // 2 Comments

NEWS ABOUT ORCA MOTHER Tahlequah carrying her dead newborn for 17 days through the Salish Sea this summer was heartbreaking, and rightfully captured the world’s attention. [Continue]

SUZUKI – Protecting the complex web of life should be the priority

October 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

NEWS THAT ENVIRONMENT and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform [Continue]