The Sad Irony of Trump’s Presidential Response to Hurricane Harvey

 The oblivious president On Tuesday, August 29, as Hurricane Harvey lingered over Houston dumping an “unprecedented” four feet of rain, plus a few inches, the presidential entourage landed in Corpus Christi. Three days earlier Hurricane Harvey came ashore north of Corpus, pounding the small community of Rockport as a Category 4 storm. South Texas took the brunt of what is …

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Earth Day in the Anthropocene

The Cognitive Dissonance of Earth Day

Marching for science in the Anthropocene For what you have tamed, you become responsible forever – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I ask the same question every year: how do we balance our sense of hope and despair? Another Earth Day rolls around and the question has never been more cogent. Barely three months into Donald Trump’s America decades of policy and …

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