Tag: mitigate climate change

What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual.  Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate …

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From The Writer’s Almanac: It was on this day in 1832 that the world’s first streetcar began operation in New York City, running between Prince and 14th Streets in Lower Manhattan.

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Pessimistic articles on climate change like this one from yesterday’s New York Times always get me thinking: what can we be doing to cut back on fossil fuel emissions? Obviously this is a tough problem in a number of ways, principally …

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Here’s a 68-page report from 2007 on the impact of climate change on American national security, created by a team of 11 retired generals and admirals. Though I didn’t read every word, I found no real surprises here, other than …

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