Part III of a Trilogy Part I and Part II PATRICIA REMY – It’s time to get down to earth. Soil, that is. When the soil is exhausted, nothing grows. There is no arable land, no grassland, no forest. There is no food or shelter for the beasts of the […]
Part II of a Trilogy PATRICIA REMY Population – An Essential Digression Maybe you’ve guessed it, too. It’s not the cattle (or bison or other ruminants) who are the problem. It’s the segment of the 8 billion size human population, mainly in the richer nations, who want or need their […]
Part I of a Trilogy PATRICIA REMY – The beginnings of this article began to stir when I glimpsed a fleeting tagline in my Guardian Twitter feed. As I prematurely deleted it, I thought my eye caught a phrase claiming that bison emit only 40% as much methane as cattle […]
PATRICIA REMY – As time has gone by, I have become ever more irked at the suggestion that we as individual consumers can mitigate climate change. First of all, I hate being designated as a “consumer”. Really, this is not how I self-identify. Each one of us is a lot […]
PATRICIA REMY – There are 8 billion of us humans now, populating Planet Earth. Within the next hundred years virtually all of us will die. This raises a question: How will the disposition of the deceased take place, on the average 80,000,000 annually? Numerically this is somewhat more than the […]
PATRICIA REMY – A mini-sun in every town. And no radioactive waste. We’ve been hearing about it for about a week now (The official announcement was made on December 13, 2022). The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory managed to propagate a nuclear fusion reaction which elicited net energy for the first […]
Musings From A Conversation With Kelly McDowell KELLY MCDOWELL AND PATRICIA REMY – On the crest of a low hill on the northeast side of the East Bank of the Otonabee, at Trent University, I meet Kelly McDowell. She and another woman are at work in a garden, which looks […]
A lower Carbon Footprint for Funerals? PATRICIA REMY – No one lesser than Desmond Tutu (d. 26/Dec/2021), known as “the conscience of the Republic of South Africa”, brought it into the mainline discussion. Before his death he specified that the method of disposition for his deceased body be Aquamation. Tutu […]
PATRICIA REMY MONITOR: Toxicus, we have a problem. TOXICUS: Worrying your head again, Monitor? What is it this time? Our food is making us sick? We’re outgrowing our living space? Anxiety and mistrust are rife among the population? MONITOR: Well, actually, Sir, all three. Our population is doubling every 10 […]
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