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Trevor Hancock

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Trevor Hancock: With cruelty reigning to the south, Canada needs to keep flame of kindness burning

Back in the late 1980s, the first President Bush expressed a wish for a kinder, gentler nation. A joke going around at the time, I recall, was that he...

08.04.2025 3

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Trevor Hancock: Loss of nature has huge impact, but doesn't get attention it deserves

There was a lot of attention paid in the recent election campaign to the provincial deficit, by which various politicians and commentators meant...

27.10.2024 2

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Trevor Hancock: Later is too late to restore nature

On Monday, COP16 — the 16th UN Biodiversity Conference — will open in Cali, Colombia. It is the first of three UN conferences this fall that are...

20.10.2024 5

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Trevor Hancock: Forget 'axe the tax.' Try 'pay the price'

By proclaiming that the carbon tax “is an existential threat to our economy and our way of life” and that it threatens a “nuclear winter” for the...

22.09.2024 2

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Trevor Hancock: Seniors demand action on climate change

I was born in 1948, when the average annual atmospheric CO2 level was about 311 ppm. When I started writing this column in December 2014, average...

15.09.2024 2

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Trevor Hancock: We need a 'Well-being of Future Generations Act'

The UN Environment Programme’s report Navigating New Horizons is sub-titled “A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing.” In...

18.08.2024 1

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Trevor Hancock: Misinformation, declining trust and polarization undermine democracy

Last week, I summarized five of the eight critical shifts identified in a recent UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, Navigating New Horizons,...

12.08.2024 3

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Trevor Hancock: Water scarcity, forced displacement among challenges we face

The UN Environment Programme’s new report Navigating New Horizons, produced in partnership with the International Science Council, is not easy...

04.08.2024 3

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