Democrats cashed in this past election thanks to public disgust with Republicans. But when the Democrats don’t change things (again), where will voters turn? What candidates or parties can they… Read more »
environment
Seeing red over phony green reforms
This time, it was an article in a local paper that raised my blood pressure. Called “Lukewarm to Global Warming,” the Feb. 4 Seattle Times piece described how cautiously state… Read more »
Acting green while chasing gold: the corporate-college connection
Thanks to medical research over the past 50 years, everybody knows that cigarette smoking is linked to cancer, emphysema, and a host of other life-threatening conditions. But imagine how things… Read more »
The destruction of a great river system
If there were ever a case for a planned economy, it’s unfolding in Australia, the planet’s driest inhabited continent. Agriculture is in crisis in the Murray-Darling basin, one of the… Read more »
U.S. military: destroyer of the environment
It’s no secret that Planet Earth is wading into heavier environmental disaster by the hour. Be it deforestation, pollution, climate changing greenhouse gas emissions, or species extinction, the global ecosystem… Read more »
An inconvenient truth: Carbon trading won’t stop climate change
Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, trap heat in the atmosphere and cause earth’s temperatures to rise. Even oil giant Exxon Mobil no longer denies that… Read more »
Government neglect and denial of climate change ignite string of deadly wildfires
This 2009 article, which shows that the current catastrophe has been long in the making, talks solutions.
U.S. sabotages Copenhagen climate change summit
Polar ice caps and glaciers are melting. The Sahara Desert is expanding. And sea levels are rising. The hottest 10 years on record have all been since 1997. And this… Read more »
Editorial: BP travesty demands radical measures
If ever an event triggered the need for fundamental change, British Petroleum’s oil rig explosion is it. As the FS goes to press, oil is still gushing into the Gulf… Read more »
BP profits vs. life in the Gulf
Faced with an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions from its failed Gulf of Mexico rig, oil giant BP wasted no time shifting into damage control mode. No, not to protect… Read more »
