Key Environmental Issues

As we begin the 21st century, environmental thinkers are divided along a sharp fault line. There are the doomsayers who predict the collapse of the global ecosystem. There are the technological optimists who believe that we can feed 12 billion people and solve all our problems with science and technology. Read more

Here’s a link to the paper: The Positive Role of Human Emissions of CO2 Read more

Here’s a link to the paper: Ocean “Acidification” Alarmism in Perspective Read more

What the David Suzuki Foundation doesn’t want you to know about pink salmon returns in the Broughton Archipelago Graphs Showing Historical Record of Pink Salmon Runs in the Broughton Archipelago in the BC Mainland Coast. http://www.greenspirit.com/pinksalmon/index.cfm Our report written for Positive Aquaculture Awareness on Farmed Salmon, PCBs, Activists and the Read more

Introduction In the seaside villages of the Fiji Islands, the elder men gather in a circle in a special hut every day at about 4 in the afternoon. With the sound of a younger man pounding kava root in the background, they speak slowly, in turn, of village affairs. No Read more

About ten years after logging, this site near Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island has a high biodiversity of trees, shrubs, and herbs. It supports a large number of insects, birds and mammals that benefit from the forage, nectar, and new habitat Biodiversity, or biological diversity, has become the single biggest Read more

I wrote this little polemic in 1994 after many years of fussing and fuming about the changes that had come over my beloved Greenpeace. In retrospect it seems a little harsh but it gets the point across. The essay was published in this form in Leadership Quarterly, 5(3/4), 1994 More Read more

This was the headline in the Vancouver Sun newspaper article that reprinted my correspondence with Prince Philip in his capacity as head of the World Wildlife Fund (known as the World Wide Fund for Nature in Europe). It all began with this Associated Press wire story that was filed in Read more

So, you say, what’s chicken jokes got to do with serious stuff like ecology, biodiversity, environmental collapse, and ultimate death? Not a lot. Except I found that this particular set of chicken jokes shows how we all use words so differently, and how we all see the world so differently. Read more

With good reason, there is a lot of emphasis these days on wilderness protection. As usual, a lot of the attention in the media is on the controversial areas. I wrote this article for the International Journal of Wilderness, Volume 1(2), December, 1995. It provides an overview of the Protected Read more