George Monbiot of the Guardian has hit the nail on the head in this recent article about COP 26 in Glasgow. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/10/extreme-wealth-polluting-climate-breakdown-rich “The very rich arrogate to themselves the lion’s share of...
Ethics and the Coronavirus When I was just 4 years old, in 1953, my sister and I lined up at the public library to get our polio vaccine in little sugar cubes. One of the girls in our first grade had crutches from her bout with polio, but otherwise we were spared from...
It is the week before Christmas, 2018. President Trump issued another “tweet” two days ago about removing all U.S. troops from Syria. Nothing illegal about that; it makes sense that a U.S. president heads foreign policy, with the advice and consent of the...
INTRODUCTION In 1994, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission (IJC) recommended the phasing out of all organochlorines in the Great Lakes Basin, and did so in the strongest possible terms. Using the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978 n2 (GLWQA) as its...
Authors: RUTH JEBE DON MAYER YONG-SHIK LEE On March 13, 2012, Japan, the United States, and the European Union filed Requests for Consultations (Requests) with the World Trade Organization (WTO), contesting China’s export restrictions on rare earth elements (REE). The...
