It takes so little to raise my hackles these days, so let me just share two little snippets that left me growling this week.
Life on Planet Earth … but for how long?
Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report detailing the threats posed by global warming and concluding that nations aren’t doing nearly enough to protect the planet, the U.S. Supreme Court stands poised to curtail the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to proceed with sweeping regulation of climate-warming emissions from the nation’s power plants.
According to the IPCC report, water and food insecurity have become widespread, affecting millions across the globe, as droughts, heat waves and floods inundate the planet. More than 13 million people in Africa and Asia were displaced by extreme weather in 2019. Says ecologist Camille Parmesan, one of the report’s authors …
“One of the most…
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