Philosopher George Carlin once said, “Man is only here to give the planet something it didn’t have: Plastic.” And man has done well: plastic is ubiquitous in our world today and the numbers are growing. We produce 20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years ago. The production and use of …
I remember the spring of 1970 vividly, but not because of the first Earth Day. I remember that Richard Nixon was president, Simon & Garfunkle’s “Bridge over Troubled Waters” was playing on the radio and the Flip Wilson Show was on TV. The academy award for best movie went to “Patton”. (Actually I had to …
Earth Day is coming up and I am having a hard time with climate change. It’s such a big, complicated issue. Climate change, according to Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), is inherently abstract, scientifically complex, and globally diffused in causes and consequences. People have a hard time grasping the concept, let …
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