Category: Chronicles
Bearing Witness to Climate Change February 2023
Global warming is melting glaciers across the globe more rapidly with two-thirds of all glaciers expected to be lost by the end of the century. A new study predicts that 15 million people live in danger of glacial flooding, with a majority of those in… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change February 2023”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change January 2023
This month’s Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a summary of news from around the world during January 2023 about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. Organizations from across the world have released preliminary findings that 2022 was one… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change January 2023”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change December 2022
This month’s Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a summary of news from around the world during December 2022 about the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. The Global Carbon Project predicts that emissions from fossil fuels in 2022 will… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change December 2022”
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic December 2022
Approaching three years into the pandemic, some 300-400 Americans are still dying each and every day across the country from COVID-related illnesses. More than 25,000 are hospitalized. This year’s death toll has exceeded 200,000 with a total death count of nearly 1.1 million. The… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to the Pandemic December 2022”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change November 2022
This month’s Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a summary of news from November 2022 related to the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. World leaders met this month in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th meeting of the Conference… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change November 2022”
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic November 2022
Approaching three years into the pandemic, some 300-400 Americans are still dying each and every day across the country from COVID-related illnesses. More than 25,000 are hospitalized. This year’s death toll has exceeded 200,000. The good news is that now only 1 in 200,000… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to the Pandemic November 2022”
Is Inflation Here to Stay?
Many people with good reason worry that inflation may be here to stay, as if we have moved into a new economy that is untethered from the behavioral norms, history, and rules of previous decades. There are many contributing factors to consider. For years,… Continue Reading “Is Inflation Here to Stay?”
Witnessing an Artificial Economy
I am one of many older adults who feels like we are now living in an unreal, artificial economy. It especially feels so when compared to the economy many of us grew up in, got educated in, worked in, and had hoped to retire… Continue Reading “Witnessing an Artificial Economy”
Bearing Witness to Climate Change October 2022
Bearing Witness to Climate Change provides a monthly summary of news related to the changing climate and its impact on people and the planet. At the start of the month, category 4 Hurricane Ian struck the southeast Florida coast killing over 100 and inflicting… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to Climate Change October 2022”
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic October 2022
More things continue to return to normal across the US, almost as if the pandemic never happened. That is with the exception of economic pain from a raging inflation that owes its origins to disruptions during the pandemic. But things are definitely not back… Continue Reading “Bearing Witness to the Pandemic October 2022”
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