Blogposts tagged 'Deep Green'

Canada: climate criminal

Posted by Rex Weyler - 12 January 2012 at 3:14pm - 4 Comments

At dawn on the opening day of the UN climate summit in Durban, Greenpeace brands

At the UN climate summit in Durban, Greenpeace brands the Harper government 'CLIMATE FAIL'

At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments.

Article tagged as: canada, climate change, deep green, go beyond oil, kyoto, oil, rex weyler, tar sands

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Deep Green: overshoot and tech dreams

Posted by jossc - 12 June 2009 at 10:29am - 6 Comments

Here's the latest in the Deep Green column from Rex Weyler - author, journalist, ecologist and long-time Greenpeace trouble-maker. The opinions here are his own.

Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at best, extend the suffering.

Article tagged as: climate change, deep green, ecology, geoengineering, overconsumption, rex weyler