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Watching in horror as President Trump and Greed’s Own Party miscalculated that sacrificing USAnian lives to the COVID-19 pandemic would save the economy – resulting in unnecessary deaths, heartache and ever-extending economic chaos – has overshadowed other news. And now
Read moreThe illogic of continued resource extraction has finally caught on with reasonable people, but it still faces opposition from folks who resist any change on the principle of refusing to think and that worse lot who don’t care about environmental
Read moreThe news was shocking, disturbing to anyone who is still a child at heart. Early this month, CBS announced: “Reindeer near Santa’s hometown need help to survive a warming climate.” NBC, a little later, was less dramatic: “Climate change threatens
Read moreIn July, Carnegie Mellon University released a scientific report saying that more than 30,000 American lives could be saved if we lowered our air pollution levels below current standards. As reported by Science Daily, “Research findings show significant human health
Read moreIn August, NBC ran a story on “a growing wave of Swedes who’ve given up flying because of carbon emissions produced by air travel… “’Flying is an extremely carbon-intensive activity, and every flight avoided is a substantial emissions savings,’ said
Read moreThis one Earth we share with our many cousins is entering parlous times. Last summer The Guardian interviewed Mami Mizutori, The U.N. secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction, and reported, “Catastrophes such as cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique and the drought afflicting India make headlines
Read moreAlong with buying the Republican party with campaign contributions, American corporations use a variety of subterfuges to push a “small government / fewer regulations” agenda that amounts to fighting any efforts at protecting the public from their polluting perfidy. Do
Read moreUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for world leaders to meet Monday for a special summit on the “the life-threatening impact of climate change on health, through air pollution, heat waves and risks to food security.” He hoped they would
Read moreHer logic was impeccable. Last year, 15-year-old climate crusader Greta Thunberg of Sweden looked at the facts and realized there was a certain absurdity in going to school to prepare for her future when adults were conspiring to destroy
Read moreLast week featured the annual Perseid meteor shower, so named because the meteors appear to originate in the Perseus constellation. The standard version of his story shows Perseus as one of the first dragon-slayers, saving a damsel in distress
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