Author: The Mound of Sound

Imagine a government fully committed to meeting the multiple threats of climate change. What would that government look like? What would it be doing? How would that be reflected in economic policy?  How would that government be implementing adaptation strategies to build resilience in the mid- to long-term? What other

Canadian Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has joined with Villeroy de Gilhau, his counterpart at the Bank of France, to warn the financial community that they can no longer afford to ignore the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate change. They said: “As financial policymakers and prudential supervisors

Nitrous Oxide, N2O, has joined Carbon Dioxide, CO2, and Methane, CH4, to our climate change worries. Carbon dioxide is bad and persists for centuries. Methane is about 25 times more potent but shorter-lived, about 12 years. Nitrous oxide, by comparison, is nearly 300 times more potent than CO2 as a

Is revolt in your future? Perhaps, if you want a future for your children and grandchildren and all the young people of their generations. The editorial board of The Guardian says disrupting traffic isn’t enough. We must derail a system, economic and political, that has us on a path to

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has been taken into custody by British police. Assange was nabbed after Ecuador stripped him of his diplomatic immunity. He had been holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for seven years during which Assange and his cat had become an increasing annoyance to the legation. The

The Edmonton Journal warns that Albertans are itching to separate from Canada if they don’t get full access to British Columbia’s coastal waters. A recent poll by the Angus Reid Institute found that 50 per cent of Albertans would support secession from Canada. United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney now pledges

Enough with Wilson-Raybould and Philpott, Trudeau and Scheer. Enough. We’ve been bombarded with this stuff, especially by some who seem determined to stir up the cistern at every opportunity. You might remember the Fenians as pain-in-the-ass Irish ex-pats who rose up against the British Crown, or imagined they would, and

There’s no doubt that man has been waging a relentless war on nature. When, over just forty years, one species can cause the loss of half of all terrestrial life and half of all marine life on the planet it’s pretty obvious who’s winning. Which is why this story out