Perhaps the take-away here is that progress takes time, but destruction doesn’t. Though the environmental movement has struggled against the power of greed and corporate influence, it’s done so with considerable success over the better part of a century. Yet most of this has been demolished in less that three years.
Few Americans understand the horrific impact that climate-fueled wild fires are having on the air quality in Australia. It’s hard to read the piece linked above and not taste the ash and see the pink sun that the author describes so clearly. Worse still is the sense of despair. From the piece: (more…)
Perhaps policing in the United States could benefit from a set of guidelines as to when it’s improper to spray bullets at random times and mow down innocent people.
Then we’ll need guidelines that ensure that police read and understand these guidelines, and that their organizations enforce them.
Finally, we’ll need guidelines for U.S. Attorneys General that make it improper to threaten to withhold police service from American citizens who question the virtue or wisdom of law enforcement personnel.
On second thought, scratch all that. Guidelines can never replace small bits of common sense and compassion.
Any criminologists out there? Maybe you can help the 2GreenEnergy reader community understand why the most visible person in the known universe, under legal pressure from several different directions, threatened with the criminal penalties associated with treason, continues to commit felonies on a minute-to-minute basis. (more…)
I found this hard to believe when I first came across it. Sure, this church is in California; one won’t find this in Oklahoma, but seriously? Showing the three held in separate cages topped with barbed wire? The baby Jesus wrapped in a silver foil blanket?
We all have Trump supporters in our lives. My wife Becky has close connections to several women from her high school days, and to her chagrin, a couple of them fall into this category. (more…)
Today is the 40th anniversary of the convening of a panel of scientists that declared the smallpox virus to be eradicated, the only disease ever to be driven to extinction through human efforts. (more…)
Global warming affects everyone of us. Now I learn that pacific cod, my go-to fish for ceviche (recipe here), has gone up in price.
Kidding, of course. Here’s the serious side of this, from Alaska Public Radio: (more…)
This made me laugh.
As I travel, or meet people from foreign countries who have come to the United States, I try to get a feel for how Trump is regarded overseas. Generally, people use words like “incompetent,” “laughing stock,” “dangerous,” “we feel sorry for you,” “we never thought this could happen to you,” etc. (more…)
Many of us are trying to make sense of the deadening of Americans’ souls and the demise of our traditional values of compassion, community, responsibility, and mutual support.
This whole thing became much clearer in just the few minutes it took me to read this article in The New Yorker, about a 21-year-old Russian, Yegor Zhukov, on trial for “extremism.” (more…)
