In a recent commentary for Nature Medicine (Feb. 2024) , the Georgetown University biologist Colin Carlson used a decades-old formula to calculate that warming had already killed four million people globally since 2000 just from malnutrition, floods, diarrhea, malaria and cardiovascular disease.” The World Health Organization expects the globe will see about 250,000 deaths annually as a result of climate change by 2030, which they say is a conservative estimate. (Calculated this is about 1,500,000 human beings. (WHO, April, 2024) And, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that 2023 was the warmest year on record for the Earth. […]
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The Future of the United States
The Future of the United States A message to Elizabeth Graham from Heather Cox Richardson begins by saying: “On a clear, cold morning of December 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S. soldiers tried to wrench a valuable Winchester away from a young Lakota man.” In the end, these soldiers massacred the men, women, and children of the Lakota’s that day. What a heart-wrenching tale, but with an incredible ending of “One of the curses of history is that we cannot go back and change the course leading to disasters, no matter how much we might […]
Response to Jeffrey Sach’s Article Called A Framework for Peace in Israel and Palestine
I have read Jeffrey Sach’s latest plea for peace which includes an excellent proposal by the UN for the requisite steps to a more lasting peace in Israel and Palestine. There is one piece of this puzzle that the UN and Jeffrey Sach have failed to recognize. Putin’s involvement with Hamas via Iran is obvious. This is a man – who Russians compare to Stalin and who wishes to rule the world and who violently hates the United States and our democracy. Hamas began this war when it benefitted Putin. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, U.S. media commentators have nearly […]