Opinion

"We’ve pushed our life-support systems beyond the brink and, rather than doing everything to keep things from getting worse, we elect politicians who roll back effective climate policies and ignore the crisis."

"The urgent need to quickly shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy and to enact policies to reduce energy consumption shouldn’t even be a subject for political debate — and as recently as the late 1980s to early 1990s, it wasn’t politicized."

"Many of those solutions are already creating positive change and more are being developed every day."

"Is the regulation of stand-alone short-term rentals (STRs) such as Airbnbs or VRBOs the solution to Hinton’s availability of housing or affordability crisis?"

"With so many important issues to contend with — housing, health care, affordability and inflation, pollution, overpopulation, crime, violence and war — focusing election campaigns on whether or not to maintain effective climate policies is insane."

"Plastic pollution is a growing global problem. It affects our ecosystems and our bodies."