Welcome to Golden Eagle Views. I'm Phil Carter, and worked as an environmental journalist from the late 1980s until 2007. I have written about the logging protests on the west coast of Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the plight of the Spirit Bear in northern British Columbia, and environmental and social issues related to the coal mining expansion in east-central India.
I am no longer working as a journalist for several reasons. First, the worsening civil war in India involving Maoists and a heavy government response known as "Operation Green Hunt" has made it difficult to work there. Wars are best handled by foreign correspondents backed by large news organizations or else local journalists who speak the local language and can blend with the population. Second, the rise of the Internet means that several publications I used to write for no longer accept freelance work. Finally, the Canadian government has gone so far as to ban journalists from interviewing scientists working for Environment Canada, effectively placing Canadian environmental journalists on the endangered species list along with spotted owls and marbled murrelets.
I am now based in Japan, where I am a graduate student at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu. I study Japanese language and am researching alternative ways of approaching the environmental conflicts of this time.
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