Occasional Observer

For over a decade, former President Trump has been telling people that “global warming is a hoax created by the Chinese in order to make United States manufacturing non-competitive.” Asked in a recent interview by Fox’s Stuart Varney whether climate change was because of human activity, Trump replied, “you have a thing called weather and you go

After many years of planning for more affordable housing, finally several projects together promising as many as 90 units of new affordable housing are planned and are likely to be realized in the next few years.

Over the past 80 years the world’s human population has quadrupled while at the same time people’s taste for meat has grown considerably. But the supply has not been able to keep up with the demand. Currently according to the World Health Organization nearly a third of the world’s population have inadequate food.

Several of recent studies tell us that American bird populations are declining and now are only half of what they were sixty years ago. Some experts say we’re losing nearly a billion birds each year just from birds colliding with windows!

Each year American families purchase more than 30 million cut Christmas trees and an even greater number of fake plastic ones to serve for a couple of weeks as the centerpiece of their holiday home decoration. But a more environmentally friendly solution would be to forego the cut or fake tree and substitute instead a live tree.

Floods are so common that we seldom pay much attention to them. But lately floods have become more severe and weather forecasters are saying that they are only going to get much worse.

Recent news regarding the environment has been varied, some quite discouraging while other news seems very optimistic.

Two gentlemen from Indiana, one a politician the other a public-spirited industrialist, show strikingly by example what has happened to the Republican party over the past half century. Curiously, both men came from the same town, Columbus, Ind., a thriving community of 48,000 people about 40 miles south of Indianapolis.