We like to talk about our ‘footprint’. I can’t really think of anything that wants to be stepped on; we think of our footprint as all bad. I think we need a different way of thinking about our impact on the world. Let’s not get so caught up in trying to minimize our footprint that we forget to maximize it, too.
The problem in the minds of the world out there is that polar bears are polar bears. If we were talking about the Great Northern Dung Beetle, I bet you would let us go about our business. It doesn’t really matter how furry or cute they are. They are animals that are the other top carnivore in this environment, and they are a serious piece of business for us up here.
Once upon a time there was an emerging consensus at the First Ministers level in Canada about the need for a carbon tax. Now it is 2018 and the provinces are flipping over like SUVs in another once-in-a-hundred-years storm.
Of all the actions that have sent waves across the world and through years that followed, World War 1 has to be up there on the list. But I am starting to worry for Remembrance Day, and for remembrance. Here’s what I will do this Sunday.
There is a silent social norming that says to go stuff your inner self. Inner lives are real lives. They don’t need to be laid bare, but they do need to be acknowledged and cared for – by individuals, and as a society. We learned to brush our teeth; we can do this, too.
Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill …
“There is no place for the State in the baggies of the Nation.” In school there were the super cool good-looking kids that everyone gravitated to. The opposite sex gravitated to them by raw attraction, the same sex were looking for coolness-by-association. The ones that could wear plaid shirts when everyone was wearing polo shirts …