Environmental Activists at Enormous Risk
Violence against environmental activists is skyrocketing.
350.org founder Bill McKibben receives death threats regularly, though, to my knowledge, there have been no attempts on his life. When I met him a few months ago, he seemed assured, though I don’t know how much that means; I’m sure JFK and MLK were calm a second before bullets went through their heads.
Especially in lawless countries, activists risk their lives for the sake of sustainability every day of the week. They deserve our gratitude.
As you absorb the discussion here, realize what this means. Trump’s fan base will not be told anything about his proposed budget as it pertains to Social Security, and even if they were to come across it accidentally, they would dismiss it as “fake news.”
Here are a few words from Neal Katyal, American lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, as well as Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. He concludes his note, “Let’s make him pay for it in November.”
A reader submits the pic here and adds: “Roof mounted solar panels and solar water thermal mirror panels for a commercial building.” (Larger version below.)
What’s happening in the U.S. Senate is viewed by people around the world as the end of rule of law we had treasured since the dawn of the republic.
Australia is facing one of the worst fire seasons that it’s ever seen. While heavy rains have started to fall, bringing some respite to exhausted firefighters and frightened citizens, these blazes have torn through more than 10 million hectares, taking the lives of 29 people and more than a billion animals as of the time of this writing. 
I’ve known Jigar Shah for about ten years now; in 2015 he was good enough to write a testimonial that I used on the back cover of my book “
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Americans enjoy the rights to peaceful assembly and free speech that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the right to bear arms that is protected by the Second. But are these limitless?
