New York City, April 5, 2025
 

Climate change myths

Myth: There is nothing you can personally do to stop climate change.
Fact: There is something you can personally do, but you didn’t do it.

Myth: Our children will wander tornado-swept wastes strewn with the shards of a great civilization.
Fact: Typhoon-swept wastes will be more common.
   The New Yorker
 

    More recommended sites:

Peter Lippman's reports from Ukraine, October 2023
Peter's Letters from Bosnia and Kosovo
Peter's blog about present-day Bosnia
Surviving the Peace, book by Peter about Bosnia

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
1960s activism
 

Also of interest:

The speech Barack Obama couldn’t deliver

The Manufactured Doubt industry From tobacco to global warming. And:
The Cultural Production of Ignorance

The sun sets early on the American century The "American Century" only began 80 years ago. But it seems already to be over, with the disaster of Iraq forcing some of the United States ruling elites to realize that its hegemony has been severely weakened.

How '90s pop culture led us to Trump

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