Every tale worth telling is one of despair and hope. In ancient Greek theater, every story is either comedy or tragedy. What determines where the story falls, really, is the order of despair and hope. A comedy finds our hero in the pits of despair before rising to the hopeful…
“And how did you injure yourself,” the doctor asked me.
“Walking. Just walking,” was my reply.
Just two weeks before my forty-second birthday I had occasion to see my doctor on a Saturday, two days after getting in for an emergency session with my chiropractor. I had gotten together with…
Earth Day started 51 years ago.
James Hansen testified before Congress, bringing “global warming” into the vernacular, 33 years ago.
The Kyoto Protocol was signed (not by the US) 24 years ago.
The Paris Climate Agreement (signed, left and rejoined by the US) was signed 5 years ago.
The worst…
Many people who were previously skeptical of the climate crisis or downright didn’t believe the science have shifted. Albeit slightly, and still without acknowledging a need to act. I hear and read quite often from people who used to say it wasn’t real that now say, “ok, it’s real, but…
We seem pretty disconnected nowadays.
Scratch that, we are pretty disconnected. From one another, from ourselves, from our planet. We are 7 billion+ humans moving in infinite directions each trying to achieve a million different things. From getting the kids to school to saving for retirement. From finding a hot…
Scientists and climate journalists alike announced 2020 was the beginning of the climate decade. Essentially, the last 10 years in which we could take substantive action to curb our runaway greenhouse problem. Long gone was the notion of reversing it. Now dire action was needed simply so things didn’t get…
I’m not sure what tomorrow will bring. But it’s my hope that the goodness living deep inside all of us will shine through the bleakness that we are enduring, like sunlight through shattered glass.
Despite our crushed spirits and broken hearts, maybe we can find a new path forward, together…
This week’s insurrection has brought to a head all the inflammatory incitement our president has been fomenting for the past four-plus years. Sure, there’s hope because the sun is about to set on his disastrously divisive administration. But because one man goes away doesn’t mean the problems go away. (And…
Read five articles on the climate crisis and you’ll read about 5 different culprits for our current predicament. From politicians to businesses to the very nature of our economy and everything in between. Who’s right? Truthfully, all of them. Who’s to blame? Simply, all of us. …
In 2010, an oil pipeline in western Michigan burst, spilling more than one million gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the history of the Midwest, and according to the NTSB, it would become the costliest onshore…
