Prologue On May 10, 2024, my friend Jay Jones, emeritus professor of biology at La Verne University, invited me to see a…
(Image: Fires in Rhodes, Greece, July 19, 2023. Red depicts the fires at the edge of a gigantic cloud of smoke. NASA…
It does not look likely the Biden administration will act in time to forestall the predicted punishing rage of climate change
Nothing can save us but ourselves. Remove the explosive charge, fossil fuels. At the same time, and under wartime conditions, put to place solar power to give us light and energy ā forever
I am discouraged that Joe Biden may not have the knowledge or the courage to ride the climate centaur, or at least, slow down its destructive force
Outside Americaās air conditioned homes the world is burning and the billionaires of TV and newspaper media are filling the brains of hundreds of millions with gossip and thousands of advertising images.
I watched the last two Democratic presidential debates with heavy heart. Not a single question about the engulfing catastrophe of climate change
The climate fires in Australia signal a moral and existential crisis. We cannot afford another billion dead animals. Fires in Australia are a warning we overlook at our mortal peril
I urged China to take the initiative in sponsoring a World Environment Organization for collective international activities for the transition of the world economy away from fossil fuels
Tongass, the Amazon rain forest, and other forests all over the world, teach a few straightforward truths: they are the living part of the natural world that regulates climate
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