Photo by Julian Meehan (Flickr) A year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the world began ‘climate-striking’ — walking out of school for a few hours on Fridays to demand action against the global warming that darkens their future. In March, when 1.4 million kids around
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Canadian Dimension: A Future Without Fossil Fuels?
Photo by Hedgerow Global “Kingsmill Bond” certainly sounds like a proper name for a City of London financial analyst. He looks the part, too: gray hair expertly trimmed, well-cut suit. He’s lived in Moscow and Hong Kong and worked for Deutsche Bank, the Russian financial firm Troika Dialog, and Citibank.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Recalculating the Climate Math
Image from Public Domain The future of humanity depends on math. And the numbers in a new study released Thursday are the most ominous yet. Those numbers spell out, in simple arithmetic, how much of the fossil fuel in the world’s existing coal mines and oil wells we can burn
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