A Polycrisis Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

A Polycrisis Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

The ­polycrisis, according to the UN and Cascade Institute, includes the climate crisis, war, extreme ­economic inequality, financial ­system instability, ideological extremism, ­pernicious social impacts of digitalization, cyber attacks, ­mounting social and political unrest, large-scale forced ­migrations and an escalating danger of nuclear war…

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Take Action for Old Growth

Take Action for Old Growth

As summer is fast approaching, we (Elders for Ancient Trees, Stand.earth, Sierra Club BC, Wilderness Committee) ask for your continued support to keep the pressure on the BC NDP Government to follow through on its promises and work with First Nations to protect... Read More
Continual growth is completely unsustainable and heightens inequality

Continual growth is completely unsustainable and heightens inequality

Last week I discussed some of the problems that result from our focus on the economy rather than on ecologically sustainable human and social development. This week, I turn to a more in-depth exploration of the impacts of continual economic growth, and in particular the way in which growth, if unchecked, will dramatically increase inequality.

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We need to get over our obsession with the economy

We need to get over our obsession with the economy

I recently came across an eloquent and powerful passage by Carl Sagan, the famed cosmologist, written in response to an image of Earth taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, from beyond the planet Neptune. The Earth was just a pale blue dot, which inspired the title of his 1994 book from which the following passage is quoted. Sagan wrote: “You see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us…

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