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Geoengineering to address climate change
Posted by Sudbury Star: David Suzuki on August 25th, 2013
Sudbury Star: Altering environments to suit our needs is not new. From clearing land to building dams, we've done it throughout history. When technologies and populations were limited, our actions affected small areas -- though with some cascading effects on interconnected ecosystems. We've entered an era in which humans are a geological force. According to the website Welcome to the Anthropocene, "There are now so many of us, using so many resources, that we're disrupting the grand cycles of biology, chemistry...
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Canada: Government wrong to pull out of Convention
Posted by Sudbury Star: David Suzuki on April 6th, 2013
Sudbury Star: The federal government recently pulled out of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. It's aimed at fighting drought, a problem that affects almost 30% of Earth's land surface and threatens the well-being of more than a billion people worldwide, including in our Prairie provinces. Every year, the cumulative effects of overgrazing, over-cultivation, deforestation, poor irrigation and increasing extreme weather events --including those that cause drought -- permanently degrade close to 10 million...