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The consequences to the ecological foundations of human (and non-human) life from climate change, losses in biological diversity, trans-boundary waste movements, rising sea levels, changes in weather and food production, and so on are of a magnitude not previously experienced and pose not just a threat but also a certainty of changes to our collective quality of life. These processes, and the complex...
To convince others that something is right or wrong, we need a language of ends, not means. We don’t have to believe that our objectives are poised to succeed. But we do need to be able to believe in them. Ill Fares the Land, 2010:180
Canada’s boreal forest ecozone is a major part of the global boreal region that encircles the Earth’s northern hemisphere, serving as a significant storehouse for the world’s freshwater supplies, and carbon, contained in its trees, soil, and peat ( http://pubs.pembina.org/reports/1000-cuts.pdf , 2006). The boreal is also home to a rich array of wildlife, including migratory birds, waterfowl, bears,...
Since the 1990s, the tar sands enterprise has evoked a collision of worldviews. At one extreme: proponents of the industry’s growth and the development of what they perceive as a valuable energy source that creates investment, jobs, taxes and royalties, with reparable or justifiable costs. At the other: critics alarmed at the socio-ecological disruption associated with the extraction and consumption...
The Athabasca tar sands may have been born virtually overnight in the international media, but only after a decades-long incubation period during which the maternal side of Albertans shone. This incubation is captured – the baby itself in fact constructed – in discourse as much as in industriousness. And within this discourse, it is the images that have withstood the test of time, marking each trimester...
Incumbent Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach (2006–) says that he “doesn’t need to tell” the Fort McMurray business community how their support for the Athabasca oil sands is key to the economies of Alberta and Canada. He then announces to citizens of the city and the province that it is their responsibility to supply energy to the world. Much government and industry rhetoric about tar sands development...
Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose is not to catalogue this litany of horrors. Collectively, however, we have crossed certain literal and figurative thresholds. Our ability to commit...
Society’s short 100-year love affair with oil has been replete with regional supply concerns, heated contests over access to the globe’s more substantial pools, price roller coasters, and nasty environmental disasters. Today, however, the political discourse on oil has ever so hesitantly ventured into entirely new terrain – the End of Oil. As with the close of all intimate marriages, this discourse...
Two intersecting moments of the Twenty-first Century define our politics, economies, and future prospects for civilization: the mounting evidence for global climate change, now unequivocally attributed to socio-economic activities, and its de-stabilizing effects on our biosphere, combined with the end of easy oil and the easy wealth it generates. On the energy question, non-conventional fossil fuels...
There are 12 conservation land trust organizations (CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data with published documents on CLTOs, this paper examines how CLTOs make decisions as to which projects to pursue and the kinds of justifications they offer for the projects they have completed...
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