The Guardian: Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study Insect declines mean reduced yields of healthy foods like fruit and vegetables and increased disease in people Damian Carrington Environment editor — Mon 9 Jan 2023 The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing … Continue reading The Pollinators are Dying — And That’s Killing People
Football is back, with the American public’s talent for fast forgetting on full display. The live broadcast of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s near-death experience is rapidly receding into the background as the players scrimmage, fall, roll and rise back and forth. The crowds scream, the advertisers and owners rake in more big bucks, the … Continue reading Football, Forgetting, and the All-American Death Cult
[Note: We’re obliged to start with another, “Happy Holidays, you’re fired!” report, in that industry where they are a near-daily occurrence: The Washington Post announced last week that it will kill its sixty year old Sunday magazine. Its ten staffers have their pink slips, and the final issue will hit the streets on Sunday December … Continue reading Washington Post: A Quaker Takes Charge of His Dying
By Chuck Fager Dear Friends, One of the finest, most eloquent ministers of this generation of liberal Quakers has left us. William J. “Bill” Kreidler, of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, died on June 10, 2000. This is a time to mourn, and also a time to remember, and to pay tribute, which is what … Continue reading Bill Kreidler: A Personal Tribute