Time to leave Fantasy Island: Climate 2.0 is here and queer
Submitted by Paul Beckwith (with input from Matthew Ladd). This article is also posted on Paul’s Sierra Club site. Paul Beckwith is a PhD student with the laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology, department of geography, University of Ottawa. (Editor: BoomerWarrior) A few days ago in Ottawa, the temperature reached 21 degrees Celsius. The old record was 18 [...]
Prince Charles on Rio+20
Prince Charles I am quite impressed with the stance taken by Prince Charles on the ‘critical issues of the day’ in a video address about the Rio+20 world summit starting this week. He says that we cannot continue to ignore the peril we are in. We are sleepwalking, seemingly waiting for the worse to happen, [...]
Why is Rio+20 so Crucial? Because Rio+40 will be too late.
Twenty years have gone by since the first Rio Earth Summit. Not much progress has been made to address the global issues discussed in 1992. The pace of destruction is increasing and little progress is evident on previously agreed-to goals which are largely ignored. Eyes of Hope On the eve of Rio+20, thresholds are fast [...]
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