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As catastrophic floods devastate Nepal, the contrast is stark. Obama America once mobilized more than 130 disaster responders and roughly $130 million after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. Trump America, after dismantling USAID’s disaster-response capacity, is offering $500,000 and one adviser. America once played the world’s fireman. iPINIONS laments that it’s now standing by as Nepal drowns.… Read more.
The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has already been linked to three deaths, even as the WHO assures us it is not another COVID. But iPINIONS notes that cruise ships were floating petri dishes long before COVID, thanks to norovirus outbreaks, environmental dumping, and passengers packed together socializing like sardines. Now Trump’s WHO withdrawal adds another layer… Read more.
Earth Day turns 56 this year, but its annual rituals now feel less like a call to action than a branding exercise in managed futility. iPINIONS argues that pollutocrats keep torching the planet while ordinary people are fed hollow slogans and told to carry the burden of climate salvation. Read my full take on Substack:… Read more.
First Earth Day Former Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) conceived Earth Day as a day of awareness in the late 1960s. He responded to the alarming pollution spreading carelessly across America, marking a pivotal moment in our environmental history. The country celebrated its first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The environmental practices it inaugurated have since become… Read more.
No doubt you recall the earthquake that struck Indonesia in 2004, triggering a tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. It was one of a string of historic quakes to devastate the region over the past two decades. Government officials promised back then to devise a foolproof warning system to ensure deadly tsunamis would never again… Read more.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit]… Read more.
