Politics and its Discontents

As we remain fixated on the immediate, acute crisis that has engulfed the world, it is easy to lose sight of the other crisis that contin...

Yesterday, friend Mound posted a disturbing piece on the fact that the oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than expected. The implications f...

As I write this on the morning of Labour Day, it is already 38 degrees Celsius with the humidex in Southern Ontario, another day of oppressi...

When even the dimmest and most ideologically bent among us realize they backed the wrong pony when they ignored the warnings about climate c...

While much of western society enjoys living in willful ignorance about climate change, the fact is, what you don't know can hurt you. ...

For those of us who follow such matters, this news is not really surprising: 2015 was the hottest year on record:

I received this essay from Mound yesterday. He asked me to read it carefully before deciding whether to post it, given its dark, apocalyptic...

While the fossil fuel companies and the governments that protect them continue to draw in record profits and conspicuously blockade any amel...

While I firmly believe in a transcendent reality, I have no patience or tolerance for the promotion of ignorance in the guise of religious f...

I have been writing lately about environmental degradation and the bleak future that seems to await us. On that theme, (and because I have...

In a story that even the most unthinking extreme right-winger would find hard to refute, The Star today reports that the world's lowest ...