OK Doomer
By Guy Dauncey, The Tyee
Rees and Nikiforuk call this “realism,” but that’s a very loaded word. It says, “These are the facts: you can’t argue with them.” “Be realistic” invariably means “Stop being ambitious.” This kind of realism, applied to the climate and ecological emergencies, sends the message that we’re screwed. Spiritually and emotionally it’s not in my makeup to accept defeat, so I have a problem with this, especially before we’ve even begun the rapid transition needed to tackle the climate emergency.
Charting How We Get There
By Guy Dauncey, The Great Transition Initiative
I share Bill McKibben’s sentiments 100%. I have worked in the climate trenches for twenty years, and I have always said that if you think you understand the climate crisis and you haven’t yet had that awful sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, you haven’t understood the climate crisis.
Protecting the Coastal Douglas Fir Forest: Seven Practical Solutions
By Guy Dauncey, The Practical Utopian
The Coastal Douglas fir biogeoclimatic zone that dominates the landscape on the east coast of Vancouver Island is the smallest and most at-risk zone in B.C., with the highest number of species and ecosystems at risk, many of which are ranked globally as imperiled or critically imperiled.
By Rewriting our Past, We can Rewrite our Future
By Guy Dauncey, The Practical Utopian
Our history would be simple if we could classify it neatly into dominating alpha-males versus cooperative hunter-gatherers, but the experience of agency gives us not one but two fundamental impulses. As well as the desire not to be dominated it gives us the impulse to explore our individuality
Could BC Become a 100% Renewable Energy Region?: Trucking, Ships and Planes
By Guy Dauncey, BC Sustainable Energy Association
How can we switch BC’s freight transportation from diesel and gasoline to 100% renewable energy?
Could BC Become a 100% Renewable Energy Region?: Transportation
By Guy Dauncey, BC Sustainable Energy Association
Is it possible that we could get where we want to be and ship our goods where they need to go without any use of fossil fuels?
Could BC Become a 100% Renewable Energy Region?: Electricity and Heat
By Guy Dauncey, BC Sustainable Energy Association
Would the transition away from fossil fuels fatally weaken BC’s economy, as some conservative thinkers fear? Worse yet, would it drag us back to the dark ages? Are the fear-mongers right?
Getting There on Less: Transportation Without Oil
By Guy Dauncey, YES! magazine
Americans are addicted to the joys of the open road. But the joys come at too high a price and we’re about to hit bottom. We can get around without oil. Here’s the 12-step program to do it.