Songbirds, perhaps hundreds of thousands of them, perished last fall in the Southwest, killed by "long-term starvation, made worse by unseasonably cold weather probably linked to the climate crisis."
The Belgian vehicle manufacturer Van Hool has shipped its first electric coach to the United States. Before celebrating too wildly, reflect on the fact that, by the end of 2018, China already had more than four hundred thousand of them on the road.
If you want to be really depressed -- I mean prepared -- there's a new app called Harbor that takes your home address and rates it according to "everything from topography to building materials to historical weather data and more to determine specific risk levels for fires, floods, storms and more."
Ohio's state legislature became the fourteenth in the nation to pass a law imposing draconian penalties on those who protest at fossil-fuel installations. The Republican author of the legislation founded two companies that provide security services to the oil-and-gas industry.
Massachusetts, on the other hand, became the second state -- after California, in September -- to announce that, after 2035, all new cars sold in the state must be electric. No one is going to build a separate fleet for the other states, and, in essence, this is a fait accompli, since the Biden Administration almost certainly will not challenge these rules.
Nebraska's Creighton University, a colossus of Midwestern Catholicism, pledged that it will divest from fossil fuels. It's taken a little while for the strong words of Pope Francis to filter down through the vast institutions of the Church, but the process now seems firmly under way.
Georgia has produced more great singers than almost any corner of the known universe: Gladys Knight, Little Richard, Otis Redding. Everyone knows the classic Ray Charles version of "Georgia on My Mind," but check out James Brown's rendition.
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