Saving Roy?s lake

Science Matters by David Suzuki
Vol. 7 No. 49 – September 6, 2006
Just how important is nature to Canadians? For some, our land defines who we are as a culture. For others, it provides a place of escape and renewal from the frenetic urban centres where the majority of us live. As Canadians, it seems that nature is deeply embedded in our collective psyche.

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Time to ban high-seas bottom trawling

It?s easy to tune out all those bad news stories about what?s going on in our oceans. After all, when you look out over the water, it seems like everything?s fine ? same as it ever was. But look beneath those waves and it?s a different story.
Our out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality has prevented us from really catching on to what human activities are doing to marine life ? including important species we depend on for food. Nations, industries and individuals all get away with doing things to our oceans that people would never put up with on land.

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Hired guns aim to confuse

Al Gore once told me that to get politicians to listen, you have to engage the people first. The former vice president is attempting to do just that this summer with his critically acclaimed global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” But he’s up against some pretty powerful opponents.

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