The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the clock ticks down in the final quarter of 2020, the year of the “converging crisis” as some experts are now calling it, for millions of people survival feels like a daily ordeal either physically, economically or psychologically. Of course I’m human. I feel it all…
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The Supreme Court is Now at Stake Too in the Monumental Election of 2020
As the West Goes Up in Flames, Trump Couldn’t Care Less
By Robert Reich – The air outside my window is yellow today. It was orange yesterday. The Air Quality Index is over 200. The Environmental Protection Agency defines this as a “health alert” in which “everyone may experience more serious health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours.” Unfortunately, the index has been over…
Yellow Smoke From the Riverside Fire Clogs the Air Over Portland Oregon
By Jimmy Lanier – Special to the New American Journal – PORTLAND, Ore. — The air surrounding Portland is thick with smoke, hanging like a blanket of yellow tinted fog from the Riverside Fire about 20 miles east of the city. The limited visibility created by the smoke requires headlights on to drive in the…
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…