by Sister Ellen Dunn Last month, Pope Francis launched a global initiative that integrates faith and environmental sustainability. It entails a seven-year journey for Catholic institutions and is named after […]
Tag: climate change
Guest essay: COP26 or ‘cop-out’: A cry for local action
by Alan D. Bristow The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to be the time when countries offered real solutions to honor the Paris […]
Nov. 28 letters to the editor
Cost is too high to ignore climate change The science relating to the existence and cause of climate change has been settled for years — combustion of fossil fuels by […]
COP26 failed: What needs to happen
by Peter Kalmus The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. […]
Agreements made at COP26 not enough
The 200 countries participating in COP26 (the 26th Conference of the Parties) in Glasglow, Scotland, hoped to have a final agreement on tackling climate change by the end of the […]
A dangerous fallacy: ‘If they’re polluting, why shouldn’t we?’
It’s an old fallacious argument — a variation of the bandwagon fallacy (“everyone else is doing it”) that goes like this: Everyone else is misbehaving, so why should I have […]
Guest essay: Where climate change intersects with public health
by Dr. Ken Hilsbos As a Fairmont physician, I am worried for my community. I am now seeing an alarming number of patients suffer heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, neurological […]
Oct. 29 letters to the editor
A lost opportunity — for Manchin and for us? Manchin is not your iconic conservative Democrat, one who insists on paying for changes that promote social progress. Conservative, sure, in […]
Money can grow on trees
When it comes to addressing climate change, there’s often talk of high-tech methods to cut carbon emissions, usually accompanied by discussions of financial incentives aimed at corporations, such as tax […]
Climate still warming, but leaders have a chance to fix it
by Doyle McManus This has been a year marked by terrifying news about climate change: extreme weather, massive wildfires, persistent drought in some areas and catastrophic flooding in others. The […]
