We must temper hype around AI with sober reflection on its climate impacts
While AI offers the promise of transformational leaps in efficiency, productivity, and innovation, it comes with significant costs, including to the environment.
Doing the same things over and again will not lead to different results
As the urgency of climate change escalates, the need for a comprehensive and co-ordinated policy framework becomes increasingly crucial.
It is never too late to make brave and bold decisions that preserve a survivable climate
Without making the 2030 goal deeper and urgent, net-zero emissions by 2050 is dangerous.
Harnessing windfall profits to tackle corporate greed and fund a greener future
If the Liberals made big oil and gas companies pay their fair share, it would generate more than $4-billion a year.
How to respond to climate change poses a big question—for answers we need to support science
Science provides the information and evidence our governments require to make sound decisions about the environment.
Meanwhile, climate change is accelerating
Maybe we should quickly rethink our mitigation plans, and shift to how to actually rapidly reduce emissions—not just pretend.
Transforming e-waste into digital opportunities: Canada’s path to a sustainable future
Harnessing the power of technology for social good can ensure that Canada remains a global leader in the digital revolution.
An enthralling exploration of the Petrocene Age
In Fire Weather, John Vaillant combines history, science, and Promethean fable to place the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires as a harbinger of a new fire century.
Nuclear energy never will be ‘clean,’ write Jones and Edwards
The 2024 federal budget contains many references to nuclear energy as a “clean” source of electricity. In our view, referring to nuclear electricity as “clean” is the height of absurdity. The nuclear fuel chain begins with the mining of uranium from rock underground where, without human intervention, it would remain safely locked away from the biosphere. Uranium […]
Vaillant’s Fire Weather looks at devastating synergy between our dependence on fossil fuels and its impact on the climate
Below is an excerpt from Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant, published by Knopf Canada, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
