2020

"We know the fault lines because we have been imprisoned by them for years - the time for talk is over." So said President Obama in his speech at COP15 in Copenhagen. Obama called for unified action rather than delay and repeating "the same stale arguments" while the climate change problem escalated.

They expected 8.7 million sockeye salmon to return to the Fraser River this summer. Only 600,000 turned up. Only 7% of what was expected. It's the third year of low returns.

What's happened to all the salmon?

The recession may have slowed global consumption down a bit, but we're still consuming our planet's finite resources faster than it can replenish them, according to the Global Footprint Network.

Friday was an ignominious milestone: Earth entered ecological debt.

Kevin Falcon, B.C. Transportation Minister, no longer wants to twin the Port Mann Bridge. Unfortunately, it's not because he's had an epiphany, seeing that there's no place for massive road infrastructure projects in a future with peak oil and climate change.

It's been well documented that the social malaise that accompanies economic downturns allows radical groups and fringe parties to expand their sphere of influence and power.