Author Archives: Bert Hielema

Our World Today (continued)

APRIL 2010 Our World Today March was a mad month for me: first the flu, a violent strain that drained my energy. Two days of misery and it was over. I guess I am basically a healthy guy. Then to … Continue reading

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Our World Today

March 1 2011 Our World Today OK. Call me a pessimist for seeing great dangers confronting us, of which perhaps the most serious one is our refusal to face reality. Research at the University of Michigan, found that when misinformed … Continue reading

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Where Are We Heading?

February 2011. OUR WORLD TODAY Where are we in OUR WORLD TODAY and where is the world heading? In general we are somewhere between the time God created the world ‘in the beginning’, and the Last Day, also known as … Continue reading

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Are We At Peak Oil?

January 28 2011 CO-OWNING THE EARTH $350 for a barrel of oil? Douglas Coupland starts his book Player One with a sudden 400 percent oil-spike. Was he unrealistic in doing so? Let me outline the human energy history. Our earth … Continue reading

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New Year Time. Prediction Time.

OUR WORLD TODAY New Year Time. Prediction Time. Here is my scatter shot, bound to hit something: 2011 will be good, bad, excellent, depressing. It will have inflation. It will have deflation, You take your pick, because your guess is … Continue reading

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co-owning the Earth

December 2010 I am a very emotional man. When I discovered that Canadian Christians, working in institutions which I served on various levels, openly ridicule Climate Change and deny the findings of thousands of serious scientists, I was deeply upset. … Continue reading

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