Trump: What Happened Here?
When Trump first became a thing in 2015, I remember speaking with my mother (who was here when Calvin Coolidge was president) and asking, “Didn’t there used to be an unwritten rule that a candidate for president of the United States had to be at least perceived to be a good person?” I felt like I had come out of a coma, only to learn the world is now a fundamentally different place.
When you try to take the long view of the so-called “Trump phenomenon,” this is one of the tragedies you see that can never be erased: character no longer counts. (more…)
It’s not news that the U.S. federal government is doing a terrible job protecting the environment, or, more accurately, that they’re doing a fabulous job destroying it for profit. What needs to be recognized, however, is that virtually everywhere else one looks in the public sector, i.e., the governments of the 50 states as well as the thousands of counties, cities and towns around the country, one see amazing progress. 
The sequel to the 2018 best-seller that trashed the Trump Organization (“
Solar PV installations by country
For those keeping track of the latest thinking among climate scientists, I offer this piece from last month’s Science Magazine: “
We haven’t heard too much about geothermal recently. When I was writing 
Per the words of a great industrialist, “You have to think anyway, so you might as well think big.” Few places on Earth resemble New York City when it comes to deploying that concept; they’re not called the “Little Apple,” are they? 
What’s the path to sustainability? Those of us who try to wrap our wits around where we are and where we need to be uniformly find that this is not a straight-forward question. For instance, would you like to see less consumption of resources? Well, sure, if you’re talking about North Americans. 
I love this exhortation, Dr. Goodall. From your lips to God’s ears, but I do need to point out a few issues that need to be overcome before your wish can be realized by enough people such that it makes a measurable difference:
Question: How many single-use plastic bottles are sold per minute? What percentage of them are unrecycled?
