By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland’s attorney general filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday joining 30 states and local governments in an attempt to intervene with the federal government to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to establish air emission limits on greenhouse gases from power plants and other industrial sources…
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The People and the Democrats Wake Up: Will the Christians and Republicans Join Us?
Climate Change Protests and Impeachment Inquiry Give Us Some Hope — The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Well this is extraordinary. Since I came down from the mountain in the Catoctins, crossed through the nation’s capital and setup camp on the Potomac River in Virginia, the people woke up and…
First Fall Weather Cools the East Coast: Congress Needs to Get Going on Rural Broadband
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTROSS, Va. — An American bald eagle just flew by overhead, going north up the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Its white crown, yellow beak and brown feathers were unmistakable shining in the early Autumn sun with a powder blue sky as a background filled with…
Prove Me Wrong: We Only Have 31 to 81 Years to Save the Human Species
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
Hurricane Dorian Floods U.S. Coast from Florida to North Carolina
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…
The Great Climate Escape: Amazon Rain Forest Burns, Massive Hurricane Heads for U.S. Coast
Hell Hath No Fury, Like Mother Nature Provoked
State, Local Governments Sue EPA to Stop Trump Administration’s ‘Dirty Power’ Rule
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments announced a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday over the Trump administration’s proposed new Affordable Clean Energy rule, which rolls back decades of regulations aimed at cleaning up air pollution from coal-fired power plants and virtually erases progress by the Obama administration’s…
Bodies on The Ground And The Rise Of The Economic Elite
By Phil Rockstroh – The U.S. is less of a nation than a collective, psychotic episode. Within day to day life in the nation, a cultural aura exists that shifts, mingles, and merges between a sense of nervous agitation and displaced rage, in combination with a sense of weightlessness. The fragmented quality of daily life…
The Psychopaths Who Support the Psychopath-in-Chief
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief? According to experts, the…
The Rising Tide of the Populist Right
The Threat of Political Climate Change – Countering the Bannon Archipelago – By John Feffer – In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the “pink tide” of progressivism has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the recent exception of Spain, the left has…
This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out
Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…
A Significant Majority of Americans Support Efforts to Reduce Energy from Fossil Fuels to Combat Climate Change
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the future of any proposed Green New Deal in Congress may be somewhat politically controversial, a significant majority of Americans, 60 percent, support dramatically reducing the nation’s use of fossil fuels over the next two decades as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the growing…
We Should All Be Talking About the Green New Deal
Doomsday Clock Set at Two Minutes Before Midnight Apocalypse
By Glynn Wilson – One day before U.S. President Donald J. Trump blinked and caved into demands by Democrats in Congress to reopen the federal government with no agreement on funding for his ill-conceived border wall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board met in Chicago and kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock set…
Climacide — Survival Rebranding
By David Underhill – A 15-year old Swedish girl bitch-slapped the world’s representatives at the recent climate conference in Poland. She stood before them and called them frauds and fakers, while they sat in limp silence. She said they’d had their chances to do something effective about the climate crisis, and they had failed. It…
Welcome to a Dystopian Future Ushered in by Global Warming and Climate Change
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Channeling Benjamin Franklin’s Thoughts on Donald Trump’s ‘War on Science’
By Glynn Wilson – PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — When Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743, 33 years before he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Continental Congress, he recognized the need for an organization that would bring together the brightest thinkers of the day to share their scientific experiments…