Time for a Change of Tactics The Black Lives Matter movement has done wonders, but don’t rest on your laurels. The next step is the difficult one: fighting with the head, not the heart. It is much easier to attract support for an emotional demonstration against the system than to persuade people to use…
Month: August 2020
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On the Hot Prospects of Future Generations
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Yesterday I was out dog-walking with a young friend of mine, a post-graduate student in her mid-twenties, and she was expressing concern about the way the world was heading. We agreed that the COVID-19 epidemic was distracting everyone from the real problem the human race faces, which is the destruction of our environment through global…
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Newfangled Logging
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Everyone has heard about the mountain pine beetle, and the damage it has done to B. C. forests. Mills are closing because of lack of logs. So loggers are looking around to find wood that has previously been uneconomical to harvest. What about the steep mountainsides that normal logging equipment can’t access? Enter Hi-Tech Logging…
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Dr. Henry Hits the Wall
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Okay, I know Dr. Bonnie is a saint. But that doesn’t mean she’s perfect. Maybe almost perfect, but I’m watching with some interestwhat she does next. She has guided us through the worst of the epidemic when things were so bad that nobody dared to argue. It’s easy to be sympathetic and knowledgeable when everybody’s…
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Predictions: The New Normal.
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I’m assuming that Covid-19 will not go away at all, and even if it does, we can expect it back, perhaps with mutations, in future years. So Normal will never be the same. Here are some guesses, in no particular order. It will be interesting to view this post in a year or two and…