SUZUKI – It’s better to be woke than to sleepwalk through life
HOW CAN A BANK for wealthy venture capitalists, tech bros and people such as ultraconservative billionaire Peter Thiel be “woke”? Or the U.S. military? What does [Continue]
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SUZUKI – Protecting the high seas must be a high priority
AS WITH MUCH of human activity, we’ve exploited and polluted the oceans without really understanding them. We know more about the moon and Mars than what lies beneath the [Continue]
SUZUKI – Putting wealth ahead of human health is a recipe for disaster
ON FEBRUARY 3, a 150-car train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Close to half the town’s 4,700 residents had to evacuate as deadly gas and smoke [Continue]
SUZUKI – As climate conference wraps up, we must all do our part
THE 27th ANNUAL Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recently wrapped up, and the world continues to burn. Despite positive [Continue]
SUZUKI – Herman Daly saw economy, ecology and ethics as inseparable
OUR CONSUMERIST-CAPITALIST economic system was conceived relatively recently, albeit when conditions were far different than today. But we’re now so entrenched in it that [Continue]
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]
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]
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