Dyer: Brazil’s change of presidents best news for climate change conference This year’s United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP27) opens in Cairo Sunday and continues for two weeks, but all that hot air is less important than the single fact that Luiz Inácio (Lula) da Silva narrowly won the Brazilian presidency last Sunday. By Gwynne … Continue reading Dyer-Lula: One Rare Sign of Hope for the Climate
Aftermath — Part 2 Amelia Boynton was my landlady in Selma, Alabama. She was also a prominent local civil fights activist, one of the handful of Black Selmians who had managed to badger her way onto the voting rolls despite segregation. When she was knocked out cold on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during the “Bloody … Continue reading Aftermath — Part 2: A Constant Struggle
Imagine that these dreaded midterms are over. What happens next? As to the electoral results “que sera sera,” what will be, will be. No predictions will be offered here, except this one: Whatever the outcome, I am dead-sure it will not be the end of our national time of trial. Win lose or draw, the … Continue reading 2022: The Aftermath – Part 1
Axios — Oct. 31, 2022 First look: Mike Pence’s new book reveals key moment before Jan. 6 Mike Allen, Axios In former Vice President Mike Pence’s “So Help Me God“ — out Nov. 15 — he describes a scene in November 2020, just after the election, when he and former President Trump met in the … Continue reading God Wants Mike Pence to Be President . . . Are We Ready?
The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change [Excerpts] By David Wallace-Wells New York Times — 10/28/2022 Climate change has led to roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming so far, making the earth hotter now than it has ever been in the long history of civilization. . . . We know what put us in … Continue reading New Climate Change Impact Forecast: Massive, Drastic, Inescapable — But (Not Necessarily) Apocalyptic