Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t adopt alternative energy sources until they’re viable. So what’s the delay in the necessary testing and research?
Tag: Climate Change
Looking at the natural world through Indigenous eyes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The impact of climate change on the West Coast, in the Arctic and on the Prairies
Why government meddling can increase air pollution
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a more modest, but more efficient, set of environmental policies that involve doing less, not more
Lab-grown meat is worthless unless consumers see a benefit
Reading Time: 3 minutes The issues surrounding the technology – and the payoffs – need to be clearly explained to get public support
Approaching real problems with scientific problem-solving tools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do we really think that the old legal-political-economic decision-making trifecta is up to the task of solving the world’s problems?
Green energy industries are impractical, destined to fail
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yes, we need to build the renewable energy industry. But that means concentrating on nuclear and fusion energy systems
Hockey moms, commuters defend pricing pollution in court
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pricing pollution should be pursued as part of a broader #TaxShift, taxing less what we do want, while taxing more what we don’t want
Millennials can save the future by reinventing money
Reading Time: 4 minutes They need to reinvent the capitalist system to fully unleash that creativity and establish an economy that’s more just and balanced
Genetic modification a crucial tool in feeding the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Scientists have found no negative differences in the health of people eating GM and non-GM foods
Learning to cope with the gradual onset of climate change
Reading Time: 3 minutes As spring beckons after four previous very dry springs and four summers of smoke, we should prepare for the worst