Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world, and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. “In today’s world, many forms of injustice persist fed by a profit-based economic model that does not hesitate to...
One of the major problems in the struggle against climate change is what to do with the 300 million tons of plastic waste and byproducts that are produced every year via the fossil fuel industry. We’re told that we as consumers just need to recycle all the plastic we...
The West Coast looks like a doomsday landscape due to wildfires fanned by climate change that have consumed more than 5 million acres of land over the past month. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced, and over 35 have been killed so far. Smoke created by...
Wildfires have scorched more than five million acres, an area the size of Connecticut, as they raged through California, Oregon and Washington this month. At the same time, states in the southeastern U.S. have been battered by powerful hurricanes. The number of human...
Since 1970, the planet’s wildlife populations have decreased by an average of 68 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 Living Planet Report. Today’s extinction rate is hundreds, maybe even thousands of times higher than the normal baseline rate. The...
