Politics and its Discontents

There are some days I almost wish I weren't a newspaper reader. That way I wouldn't be confronted  daily with the world's stupid...

  No, I am not one of those who begrudge rich people their pleasures and pursuits. Content in my own life, I harbour no ill-will toward thos...

News that Antarctica just reached new horrifyingly high temperatures , forerunner of the deluge to come, once more reinforces the perilous...

The Mound notified me that he is having problems accessing his blog, and so directed me to the following story. Given the stellar job he ...

Having recently returned from Newfoundland to attend my son's wedding, I can claim no green virtue when it comes to flying. Indeed, I kn...

I am well past the age when I feel any real hope for the future of our species. Far too many of us are content to define our lives by the ...

Last month, I read an article by the redoubtable George Monbiot that left me both shaken and, for a period of time, quite depressed. It f...

Please explain again why your insistence that we need to build more pipelines is valid, given these facts: A new world record price for e...

Having just returned from a 10-day visit to England, my first and my wife's third, the hypocrisy of my use of air travel is not lost o...

Whether this will turn out to be another idea that holds great promise but then comes to nothing will only be known, I guess, in the future,...

Despite Justin Trudeau's sunny assurances that meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and pipeline expansion are not mutual...