Climate Change

While twenty states have laws restricting rights to peaceful protest, the shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán is a chilling escalation — America has a long history of cracking down on dissent. The word ‘authoritarian’ gets tossed around a lot when discussing whatever geopolitical rival is being targeted for regime change that week, but I’m always surprised by how many well-educated people fall for the ‘authoritarian’ versus ‘full of freedom’ framing.

Race, gender, equality, and life balance are all factors — Roaring Rivers Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers It matters to most of us how much Earth we have left Even if your low-lying city, New York, Bangladesh, Bangkok, or Miami is not yet flooded with desperate people and water, or even if you are running out of water as the mega-drought US Pacific Coast, and much of North Africa, you will care…

Climate change is real and it’s happening right now. But don’t despair — there’s still hope. Every little action we take counts and collectively, we can make a huge impact. Here are 7 game-changing ways you can help fight climate change and save our planet:

It’s here, in case you didn’t notice. Be prepared. — This morning it was -5 degrees F here in western New York, actual temperature. Real feel was 20 below. Tomorrow we will come close to 50 degrees, an incredible rise of over fifty degrees in 24 hours. There was nothing normal about this only a few years ago. But now…

The realities of future population collapse — In case you haven’t heard, Japan is in a bit of a pickle. In 2022, they were estimated to have had as few as 800,000 births. Now, my math is a bit shaky, but going by my numbers, their death rate significantly exceeded that, being around the 1.4 million mark. …