One way to get a handle on the Colorado River crisis is via historical comparison, the past and the present, then and now. Then would be 1922, when the Colorado River Compact, the current river-use agreement, was negotiated. The population…
I finally sat myself down last week with Wendell Berry’s latest book of short stories, How It Went. I’m glad I finally did. Berry challenges everyone. He is a fierce opponent of Big Government and of Big Corporate both. He…
A new report exposes much of recycling as an empty ritual geared more at cleansing consciences than the planet. The publisher of the study? Greenpeace. “The plastics and products industries have been promoting plastic recycling as the solution to plastic…
Like mushrooms after a rain, new pro-carbon tax youth groups are sprouting before our very eyes. Unlike wild mushrooms, however, this growth is anything but organic. The latest iteration, High Schoolers for Carbon Dividends, joins Students for Carbon Dividends and…
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, will host climate change luminaries from teen activist Greta Thunberg to former President Barack Obama to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. A group of Republican congressmen, including Reps. David…
Our international political class is set to descend on Glasgow this November for the United Nations climate change summit, COP26. A swarm seems to be an apt comparison given that 1,500 waste disposal staff are set to strike for the…
In case you missed it, Game of Thrones ended over two years ago, but a common theme of the HBO series is currently on many Americans’ minds and that is winter. The famous tagline is true, winter is coming. And…
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to restore the full extent of three national monuments that former President Donald Trump had greatly reduced in size: Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the marine monument Northeast Canyons and Seamounts. Bears…