Are parts of the United States becoming uninhabitable because of global warming? “This is how the time goes In an ordinary town And this is how it all ends up When you run the whole thing down “This is how it’s gone This is how it’s already gone and I know You […]
In offensive new marketing low, television commercials offer “hurricane relief” discounts How can a salesperson feel good about closing a deal after their company exploits a hurricane for financial gain? Here in Florida, post-Irma television is chock full of commercials (car ads, especially) proclaiming solidarity with survivors, offering to “expedite parts” to dealerships (What were […]
Thundering Harvey and behemoth Irma followed by churning trio in Atlantic As ye sow, so shall ye reap. –Epistle to the Galatians (6) It crept, never pausing, and we knew it would catch up with us sooner or later. Each time—doing our best, we hoped—we put the nozzle into the fuel hole and […]
Newest fossil-fuel-powered hurricanes met with big shrugs from Big Oil Appropriately, when you look for the slickest of the slick, turn to the oil companies of America. Even before the two record-breaking hurricanes this month, they had already gotten away with nothing short of putting all life on the planet on the verge of extinction. […]
Top government officials at loss to explain away climate-change-strengthened storms Imagine you’re the current governor of Florida. You’ve gone on record many times stating that climate change (global warming) is fake. (Notice that the more recent crop of politicians labels anything they don’t like “fake.” Fake news, fake global warming, etc.) Now, the strongest hurricane […]
Florida governor, media push “blameless catastrophe” narrative With Hurricane Irma churning like a demonic beast only a few hundred miles away, I find myself looking for the antonym for “mass hysteria.” The best I’ve come up with so far is “mass false contentment.” Let me say right away that I’m in no way referring to […]
Difficult to ignore the apparent karmic message from Mother Nature It’s tough to admit it, but we must: We—the burners of fossil fuels like those processed on Texas’ refinery row—caused the record-setting floods and suffering of the Texan people. Simply put, hotter weather makes bigger, stronger, wetter hurricanes. Part of the “call to action” to […]
With all due respect to the innocent victims, Big Texas Oil is not one of them If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay. –Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie, 1929 I’ve said it before […]
Emboldened by deregulation, fossil fuel companies take aim at biodiverse reef As scientists, explorers, and conservationists scramble to get environmental protection for a large coral reef recently discovered near the Brazilian mouth of the Amazon River, oil conglomerates BP and Total have already begun drilling in the area. One of the researchers who discovered the […]
The man who coined the term tacitly disinvites the clamoring ignoramuses There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “My ignorance […]