Part II: How Existential Anxiety Leads to Authoritarianism – Case Studies: Donald Trump and George Wallace By Glynn Wilson – Introduction Donald Trump has fired all the scientists in the White House. He’s made working conditions in the federal agencies so intolerable that many smart, educated people have simply quit. That seems to be by…
Yes, the global warming is caused by human activities – By Glynn Wilson – The science is in. Yes, planet Earth is still growing hotter, and 2019 was the second hottest year since records have been kept beginning in 1880. And yes, the global warming is caused by humans burning fossil fuels for energy. There…
By Glynn Wilson – While the Trump administration continues to do the bidding of fossil fuel companies by proposing to gut the National Environmental Policy Act, with little fanfare and in bipartisan fashion the United States Senate unanimously passed a package of bills this week called America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (ACE) to expand federal funding…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the world is focused on President Donald Trump’s latest crazy tweet, pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and allowing Russia and Turkey to release ISIS fighters and destroy the Kurds, U.S. allies, along with the impeachment investigation in the House, there are all kinds of under the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland’s attorney general filed a motion in federal court on Tuesday joining 30 states and local governments in an attempt to intervene with the federal government to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to establish air emission limits on greenhouse gases from power plants and other industrial sources…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated four million people around the world walked off the job, skipped school and joined marches and rallies on Friday to protest inadequate government action to address climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels in what youth organizers called a Climate Strike.…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the U.S. island of Puerto Rico dodged the worst damaging winds and flooding on the weak side of Hurricane Dorian, hot Atlantic Ocean waters of up to 85 degrees fueled the system from a tropical storm into a deadly category 4 hurricane on Friday and Saturday as…
By Glynn Wilson – In another international report that will be largely ignored in Washington with climate change deniers in the White House and the number of federal employees and government regulations dwindling, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland and is set to release its latest…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was a cold day in the nation’s capital on February 21, 1885 when the Washington Monument was finally dedicated on the National Mall after decades of fits and starts and problems finding matching stones and money to build it, according to the National Park Service, and there…
Only the Alabama Coal Ash Pollution is Not Being Covered as a National Crisis – Interactive Map By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Coal is mostly carbon. When burned it turns into carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that merely heats the planet and sends the climate into a gradual, though accelerating, death spiral. But…
“Nature is collapsing around us and it’s a real wake-up call to humanity.” By Jake Johnson – A United Nations report described as the most authoritative and comprehensive assessment of global biodiversity ever published found that human exploitation of the natural world has pushed a million plant and animal species to the brink of extinction…
Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book Falter, Bill McKibben asks, “Is it Too Late?” – Excerpted from FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. Published by Henry Holt and Company April 16th 2019. Copyright © 2019 by Bill McKibben. All rights reserved. By Bill McKibben –…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s partisan war on the environment is taking its toll not only on public lands and the planet. A new Gallup poll shows that and the booming economy due to the Obama administration’s policies are driving public opinion away from unregulated economic growth and toward more environmental protection. By…
SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – What has the media world come to when a sensational tabloid stoops to engaging in extortion NOT to run a sex scandal story about a celebrity billionaire, and the rest of the press runs with it? Personally I could care less if Amazon’s Jeff Bezos sent dick pics…
By Glynn Wilson – In direct contradiction to the public position of the president of the United States, two of the federal agencies charged with monitoring the science on climate change released a joint statement and a report on Wednesday declaring unequivocally that the effects of human-induced global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
By Glynn Wilson – One day before U.S. President Donald J. Trump blinked and caved into demands by Democrats in Congress to reopen the federal government with no agreement on funding for his ill-conceived border wall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board met in Chicago and kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock set…
By David Underhill – A 15-year old Swedish girl bitch-slapped the world’s representatives at the recent climate conference in Poland. She stood before them and called them frauds and fakers, while they sat in limp silence. She said they’d had their chances to do something effective about the climate crisis, and they had failed. It…
By John Feffer – Are You Ready for an Epoch Fail?Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life You know the story: the globalists want your guns. They want your democracy. They’re hovering just beyond the horizon in those black helicopters. They control the media and Wall Street. They’ve burrowed into a deep state that stretches like…
Editor’s Note by Glynn Wilson: Just this week I had time and thought to log back on to my account at Ancestry.com, to check on a report I received by email about six months ago. I had taken the $69 plunge to try Ancestry.com in an effort to confirm or deny my own suspicions about…
