Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
AUGUST 5, 2019 – Gun control; immigration reform; student loan burdens; opioid crisis; arms sales to Saudia Arabia; support of Israel; relations with NATO allies; relations with Russia; relations with China; disease control; tariffs; war in Afghanistan; religious extremism; white nationalism; investment in public transit; transportation safety; affordable and accessible quality health care; storage of nuclear …
JULY 15, 2019 – Whenever I spend time up at the cabin, I think about nature and . . . climate change. I think about what scientists are saying about changes to the environment around here; that over the next two decades, loons will be forced farther north until they disappear from here altogether; how a …
JUNE 7, 2019 – If we don’t materially alter our course now, big portions of the world’s 7.7 billion people will find themselves in areas so environmentally compromised as to be uninhabitable. Mass migrations will increase, threatening existing political and economic structures around the world. Consider, for example, rising average temperatures in most of India …
MAY 7, 2019 – We hear and read regularly that we’re slip-sliding into ever deeper ecological do-do. The latest cause for alarm: a U.N. report on the imminent disappearance of a million species. I count myself (smugly) among the 63% of Americans who accept what’s believed by 97% of actively publishing climatologists: human activity threatens …