President-elect Trump took rhetorical swings at Scotland’s first minister as a wind farm threatens to ruin the view from in Aberdeen.
Climate Change
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Who will be Donald Trump’s real opposition? Maybe the state of California.
The real alternative government in the United States is not the federal Democratic Party, but the state government of California.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Better public transit is a national imperative
The “transportation prison” is trapping more and more people in the United States.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Climate Accord Begins
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change went into effect on Nov. 4, a landmark deal to tackle global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming warmer even faster than scientists expected.
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Pope Francis: Protecting the planet is an ethical, moral obligation
Pope Francis praised the 100 countries that joined the Paris climate agreement but emphasized that implementing it must involve multidisciplinary cooperation and special measures of solidarity with the poor.
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As Mass Extinction Threatens, Are Catholics Listening to ‘Laudato Si’’?
Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”