Climate Change is Not a Spectator Sport.
I hyperbolate only slightly. If climate change will devastate these countries – if some of them will be completely obliterated by the results of our actions – is this not equal to war? Who can blame them for walking out of the Copenhagen talks? If this seems extreme, consider this example: If ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in December 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution, Poverty & Development
Since the modern environmental movement was founded decades ago following the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the ability of the earth to support life has declined precipitously to the point that most life is now at risk. We are on the verge of pushing the ‘reset’ button on ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in December 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government (1 comment)
Optimistically. Within 25 years, tens of millions of people will have been displaced by sea level rise due to global warming. If you think all those people, and the countries they live in, are going to go quietly into the night, you are a fool. Current projections suggest a sea ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in October 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Smart Growth (3 comments)
And by we, I mean developed countries and the people in them. Some of us do care, and are trying to do something. Some of us go so far as to think our Prime Minister is a traitor for not protecting us (or anyone) from the climate emergency. Some of ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in October 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development (3 comments)
In a previous article entitled “The Case for Crimes Against Humanity; or, The End of Rex Tillerson,” I stated that: If climate change can reasonably be expected to cause severe consequences, including large-scale loss of material goods, wealth, land, livelihood, and life; and If any person intentionally conceals the extent ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in September 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Climate Change, Economics, Education, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government (3 comments)
I ask you to consider this: If climate change can reasonably be expected to cause severe consequences, including large-scale loss of material goods, wealth, land, livelihood, and life; and If any person intentionally conceals the extent of the consequences or their likelihood of occurring; or If any person intentionally prevents ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in September 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Economics, Education, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Poverty & Development (7 comments)
If I Were a Rich Man... And I thought it smart to hedge against the danger of a collapse, here’s what I would do... The odds of a serious collapse brought about by climate change, peak oil, or financial greed are growing daily. This is not news, or debatable ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in July 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Alternative, Cohousing, & Off-Grid Living, Architecture, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government (3 comments)
NASA’s James Hansen is a hero. He has put his liberty and his reputation on the line to stop big coal. He got himself arrested on June 23, in a protest against mountaintop-removal mining. There were some other well-known people there, but Hansen is perhaps the best known and ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in July 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Air Quality, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Celebrities, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Pollution
It will kill us all. More accurately, it is killing us all. The dearth of wisdom at the top is leading us toward the abyss. From peak oil to climate change to criminal economic practices to pollution to simply favouring ideology and cronies over reality and evidence in critical cases ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in June 2009, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Philosophy & Religion, Politics & Government, Pollution
A starting note: ABC clearly took the position that the reality of climate change is accepted by pretty much everyone with any sense at this point. What the effects will be and when they will hit us, is another question, and one that ABC recently attempted to answer in “Earth ... keep reading
Written by Brian Gordon in June 2009, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Economics, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population, Poverty & Development, Transport, Travel (8 comments)
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 & Government (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 & Business, Politics & Government, 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)
