Guest Commentary

Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Fire and Ice,” which posed the question whether the world will end in fire or in ice, was published in Harper’s Magazine just over a century ago, in 1920.

Dear EarthTalk: My husband thinks it’s better for the planet to hand-wash dishes in the sink, but it seems to me using the dishwasher is more eco-friendly. Can you settle this debate for us?

—Chris B., Bowie, MD

Dear fellow members of the Sharon Hospital community:

Suppose that the COVID pandemic never happened and, tallying the toll in the United States, those many hundreds of thousands of people didn’t succumb . . . and those millions of others did not get a severe disease with potential long-term effects, all within the time of a year and a half. If it had only been preventable!

Winter approaches and with it a potential natural gas crisis. Areas of Europe are already scrambling to find the energy required to heat homes and continue their economic rebound. Could the U.S. be next?

My name is Dan Carr. Along with my wife Marleen, I own Beavertides farm in Falls Village. We use regenerative grazing practices to raise grass-fed goat and lamb, produce honey and offer classes on beekeeping.

Saigon falls again, but it has changed its name to Kabul.

You can bet on one thing. If you ask any one of the scores of millions of chthonic Republicans, of whom there are legion, they will tell you the following.

Aunt Jemima

The setting: The Board Room of The Hartford Stage 1951.

Present: Board Members, all white men and one Black woman, Gwen Reed. She takes over.

GWEN

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