Having just come through an election in Canada in which I was a Green Party candidate, and in which the anti-science, anti-environment Conservative government was re-elected, gave me cause to wonder what happened to my pro-environment Canadians. "The environment" was the #1 concern of Canadians not so long ago - before ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in November 2008, about Climate Change, Environment & Wildlife, Politics (2 comments)
Subsidies are bad; That's ECON 101. The reason being they distort the market: the subsidised product sells for less than it costs to produce, and so we buy more of it than we would without the subsidy. Making things worse, unsubsidized alternatives are placed at a disadvantage, and may ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in August 2008, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics, Transport
Editor's Note: With this post, we welcome Brian Gordon to the Celsias writing team. Brian lives in Canada where he is an Al Gore-trained presenter of An Inconvenient Truth and a Canadian Green Party candidate. I know nuclear power is bad, but... ...what if there was a type of ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in August 2008, about Clean Technologies, Emissions, Energy Saving, Nuclear (1 comment)
