Counterpunch: The world of Miguel De Grandy– when Miami crashes

We suppose Miami lawyer and lobbyist Miguel De Grandy couldn’t help writing a $500 check to the effort to unseat community activist Pat Wade from her position on a local community council in Miami-Dade County.
And why would anyone care? Now, therein lies a tale.
Pat Wade lives in rural area of Miami-Dade County called the Redland. [...]

What happens if Virgin Islands’ coral reefs disappear? Imagine climate fundamentally at odds with world economy.

In many of his plays, William Shakespeare used natural disturbances to mirror the transformations of human character. I wonder what he would have made of global warming, a scalable threat to humanity as the Black Death was at that time.
Snorkeling in the Virgin Islands last week, I marveled how the decline of shallow-water reefs is [...]