Recent Viewpoints
I remember writing this in June 2015 in the aftermath of the Charleston massacre:
“Resting on the south lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse is a Confederate memorial to the “Talbot Boys”, which was placed in this spot in…
Nearly a century ago, as fascism was taking hold in Europe as epitomized by Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany, renowned author Sinclair Lewis wrote his classic work “It Can’t Happen Here”, a warning to…
This last decade was the hottest recorded on the planet, according to NASA and NOAA. The United States accounts for 11 % of global greenhouse gas emissions and Australia accounts for 3% (coal production being their main…
In the first installment, we considered why we subsidize the US fossil fuel industry to the tune of $639 billion of which $20 billion are cash subsidies, when in the last 10 years the top five oil companies made $900 billion…