Pictured here, Annie Leonard of “The Story of Stuff” fame, now the executive director of Greenpeace USA, writes: I’m going to get straight to the point. Donald Trump’s presidency poses an enormous threat to our climate, our environment, and our …
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Optimism in the Wake of Trump’s Victory
President Trump. Wow, it hurts just to type those words. Readers hoping for an upbeat take on the presidential election will have to look elsewhere, for instance, to the Natural Resources Defense Council, which wrote this morning: Shock and disappointment. …
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Didn’t See This One Coming
Climate change is a complex phenomenon, so much so that it may never be possible to list all of its eventual effects. And admittedly, not all of them will be bad. In addition to the storms, droughts, famines, extinctions, etc., …
There Is No Reason to Build the Dakota Access Pipeline
Let’s not mince words. The enormous show of government force being applied to silence protesters’ exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech and free assembly in North Dakota is nothing short of appalling. Replete with attack dogs and rubber …
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When It Comes To Renewable Energy, Everything’s Good for Somebody
It seems sure that virtually every form of renewable energy will eventually wind up playing a role–somewhere. Just like the U.S. has wind in the Great Plains, solar in the Southwest and biomass in the Deep South, each part of …
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The Rest of the World Stands Aghast at Donald Trump
In a follow-up to my recent post on Donald Trump, Larry Lemmert comments: Craig, many of your talking points against Trump are taken from his ill- conceived words that indicate a lack of polish and a lack of political savvy.
Some Readers Support Trump, Though They’re Probably Few in Number
In response to my post U.S. Presidential Election Could Signal the End of Hope for the Environment, frequent commenter and long-time reader Larry Lemmert writes: Some of us would rather risk the flames of Hell or global warming rather than …
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Oil Companies Announce Green Fund–But There’s a Catch
When it comes to oil company citizenship, this is probably about as good as it gets. It’s a $1 billion investment in cleaning up some of the noxious byproducts of fossil fuel consumption, with a refusal to spend a nickel …
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U.S. Presidential Election Could Signal the End of Hope for the Environment
One of the presidential candidates has proposed to halt all federal government investment in clean energy, clean cars, and climate science. The fact that he’s in striking distance of the White House is testimony to….what exactly? How is it possible …
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The Technology Industry Increasingly Dominates Our Lives
Here’s another wonderful way of making the point that the tech sector has dwarfed literally everything else in the world economy. The implication: this can only get more lopsided as time goes on.
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