13 Mar, 2023
War: Still Not Healthy for Children
War: Still Not Healthy for Children by Paul Hellweg 750 words If you’re old enough to remember the slogan “War...
13 Mar, 2023
13 Nov, 2022
The need for global unity: How world law can save us all
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, our best option is to adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II.
13 Oct, 2022
Putin’s on the ballot
Putin’s on the ballot by Tom H. Hastings 478 words Really, everything’s on the ballot. We hear that reproductive rights...
28 Aug, 2022
The dance of sympathy
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I recently joined a gathering of people highly concerned with a range of threats, from war to climate catastrophe and more.
29 Apr, 2022
No more Earth Days!
We don’t need, indeed can’t tolerate, any more Earth Days during which we salve our consciences and then go back to a world that is grossly and unsustainably over-populated...
30 Oct, 2021
Dim Prospects for Climate Mitigation
Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National Intelligence Estimate: Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040...
2 Oct, 2021
Dim Prospects for Climate Mitigation
Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National Intelligence Estimate: Climate Change and International Responses Increasing Challenges to US National Security Through 2040...
10 Sep, 2021
We are being out-evolved
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
31 Aug, 2021
You can help stop climate chaos: 25 ways
There is no serious doubt or debate: anthropogenic (human-effected) activities are driving more hurricanes than ever, more intense killer heat waves than ever in recorded meteorological history...
26 Aug, 2021
A world for future generations
Reflect for a moment that Mt. Shasta, off the I-5 in Northern California, was described by John Muir in 1877 as: “Go where you will within a radius of from fifty to a hundred miles, there stands the colossal cone of Shasta...
11 Aug, 2021
A gift for the future
Today, a child was born, tiny hands curling and unfurling with the startled shock of cool air on wet skin, oxygen flooding into newly-opened lungs as she cries upon entering this strange new world...
25 Jun, 2021
Let them suck Sikorskys, let them eat pork
The temperature in my historically cool and temperate city, Portland OR, is projected to be a historic 114 degrees today.
17 Jun, 2021
The Urgent Need to Educate America about Climate-Related Migration
The Biden administration has made some admirable moves and gestures toward addressing the immense challenges posed by climate-related migration.
14 May, 2021
We should address the greatest threats to our safety and security!
Currently, the U.S. spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon...
10 Mar, 2021
Maine Farm Girl & Kansas Grain Farmer Talk Climate on The Train
A young Kansas grain farmer and I were riding on a train through Iowa when the subject of the climate crisis came up...