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The war of the Trump administration and Israel against Persia / Iran is bringing humanity ever closer to catastrophe. Both Israel and Iran are...
On October 16, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that as long as nuclear weapons exist, they should never be...
On December 7, 2009, the Obama administration accepted the endangerment finding that, finally, brought fossil fuels in the power of the rule of law....
President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the legal bedrock for...
Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager...
Petroleum is the fossil remnant of extremely ancient forests. Its discovery in mid-19th century sparked the rapid industrialization of Western Europe,...
Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October 2025, I was on the...
Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North...
Prologue Writing about climate change / chaos in 2025 is like writing fiction or describing Eris / strife. Not that climate chaos is unreal or that...
Threatening Greek peasants On April 15, 2025, the appointed president of Greece issued an order that is bound to have serious, nay, potentially...
Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University in Washington, DC. Among...
The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and land, including...
I worked for 2 years on Capitol Hill and 25 years for the US Environmental Protection Agency. During those 27 years I met many bureaucrats and a few...
Berkeley Earth, a non-profit climate change organization, concluded that climate chaos was at its worst in the last decade. Its Global Temperature...
Prologue Quite by accident, a neighbor said to me that the New York Times had a lengthy opinion piece in support of animal farms, which represent...
Prologue Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are fundamental to Greek history, mythology and civilization. Homer lived during the...