The inimitable Mary Karr, author of the spectacular Liar's Club and Cherry, among other excoriatingly beautiful works, is known as a memorist, but deserves to be as well-known as her poetry. She has a clutch of good ones in this month's Poetry magazine (wonderfully laid out and free on-line, as always). This one is aboutContinue reading “Breath is God’s intent to keep us living: Mary Karr”
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Why Resistance to the Idea of Global Warming Is Rising: The “More So Syndrome”
This morning Richard Harris of NPR's Morning Edition filed a typically excellent report on why, according to polls, substantially fewer Americans believe in global warming than believed just two years ago. According to the (unaffiliated) Harris Poll, now only 51% of Americans believe that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause the earth's temperatureContinue reading “Why Resistance to the Idea of Global Warming Is Rising: The “More So Syndrome””
Kit Stolz 