This multi-media piece from CNN.com has text, narration, and a slide show. Gary Braasch took many of the photographs, and Bill McKibben wrote the essay. Together they dramatize the scope and the urgency of the peril facing the globe. The ability of man to respond quickly enough and effectively enough is open to question, but the authors take heart in noting that now there are pictures to document the threats and make them real to people. Now we can imagine a different world, a better world.


CONSEQUENCES
SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).