All articles by Rex Weyler
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Dorothy Metcalfe: 1931 – 2019
Dorothy's political savvy and journalist network made the campaign a huge story across Canada and the US.
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The end of infinite growth
Our climate crisis, our biodiversity crisis, our depleted soils, and humanitarian crises, are all symptoms of the unrealistic scale of human enterprise.
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Gaia: everything on Earth is connected
James Lovelock, the British independent scientist, died in 2022 on his 103rd birthday. His seminal book, Gaia, published 40 years ago, helped shift popular perceptions about the Earth.
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The oil companies knew all along
The history shows us that our challenge with global heating is not the science, but the deceits of industry, failures of governments and cowardliness of mainstream media.
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It’s a Waste World
Our modern electronic devices represent a massive waste stream. Last year, electronic waste reached an all-time record of 65 million tonnes.
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Nine ways humans have altered Earth’s Holocene climate
Global heating deniers claim that anthropogenic carbon emissions cannot be considered a major contribution to the heating of Earth's oceans and atmosphere. Here are nine ways they're wrong.
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Extinction and Rebellion
"One of the strengths of 1960s social rebellion was a union of art and politics. That spirit appears to be flowering again."
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Monsanto: Busted
The risk of pesticides in food does not stop with glyphosate. Pesticide-based farming has left behind a trail of unintended consequences.