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Opinion articles by Lydia

09.19.23 | Biden’s Green Energy Money Is Sugar on a Poison Pill

Guest Essay.

04.21.23 | Elegy for an Altered Planet

We dream of ourselves, we aliens from everywhere. Thieves stealing their way across the land.

11.25.20 | Rise Up and Save Us, Joe Biden

There is no middle path when it comes to the climate emergency.

02.24.16 | A Danger to Our Grizzlies

Grizzly bear populations are already threatened. A move to strip their federal protection would decimate the species

11.11.15 | Obama Should Let Fossil Fuels Lie

The logic is clear. If we don’t extract them, we can’t burn them.

10.13.15 | Native Lives Matter, Too

Almost no attention is paid to this pattern of violence against already devastated peoples

07.25.15 | Save the Elephant

Listing the two types of elephants as separate endangered species will save them from being poached into extinction

05.29.15 | Selling Off Apache Holy Land

What motivated Congress to give Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site, to a mining company that will certainly destroy it?

04.04.15 | Stuffed Animals With an Agenda

In Tucson, a museum celebrates trophy hunting rather than conservation

01.18.15 | High Noon for the Gray Wolf

If the U.S. doesn’t act, these creatures will be slaughtered again

12.08.12 | The Child’s Menagerie

When the polar bears and penguins are gone, what lovable toy army will be the children’s close companions?

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