SUZUKI – Water runs through the climate crisis
SOMETIMES there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific [Continue]
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SUZUKI – We can’t look away from an overheating world
NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]
SUZUKI – For health habitats, leave it to beavers and other animal engineers
BEAVERS HAVE LONG BEEN considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent moves to leave the [Continue]
SUZUKI – Despite record profits, oil industry greed is a bottomless pit
CANADA OFFERS some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry executives want more. Even as they amass record profits, they’ve asked [Continue]
SUZUKI – Canada’s plastics ban is a good start but we need to go further
MOST OF US have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead birds with stomachs full of debris, animals smothered by plastic bags… Our excessive [Continue]
SUZUKI – Report outlines Canada’s quick path to clean power
CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fueling a climate of uncertainty in a time of war
IT’S A TRAGIC TRUTH that some people are willing to inflict unfathomable suffering and death for the sake of power and wealth. From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to [Continue]
SUZUKI – We’re not the individuals we believe ourselves to be
WE USUALLY THINK of ecosystems as landscapes outside ourselves. After all, aren’t we strikingly singular — unique in and for our thoughts, abilities and personalities? [Continue]
SUZUKI – Anthropocene means that we hold the key to our future
GEOLOGISTS HAVE CLASSIFED most epochs in Earth’s history according to fossils, radiometric dating and composition of the strata. The widely endorsed label for our current [Continue]
SUZUKI – If our stories set us apart, we need to create new ones
ACCORDING TO philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, “Homo sapiens conquered this planet thanks above all to the unique human ability to create and spread fictions. [Continue]
SUZUKI – It will take more than electric cars to drive down emissions
RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]
SUZUKI – Enough ‘blah, blah, blah’ – it’s time for real change on climate issue
WHAT’S THE BEST WAY to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The [Continue]
SUZUKI – CBD gummy scam illustrates the need for media literacy
WOULD YOU BUY cannabis gummies from me? Apparently, hundreds of people would. Only trouble is, I don’t sell them, and I’m not looking for business opportunities. [Continue]
SUZUKI – Federal election requires serious shift on climate, justice, health
PROTECTING THE AIR, water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be political. It’s become politicized, though. Worse, the debate is [Continue]
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