Climate Corner: Facing reality

May 20, 2023 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com “You need to be more realistic.” Those of us advocating to prevent the collapse of human civilization caused by anthropogenic climate change have heard this line or some variation of it more… Read More

Public land being stollen

April 24 Columbus Dispatch Letter to the Editor Aaron Dunbar I testified at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources April 10, voicing my opposition to the theft of Ohio’s state parks and public lands for oil and gas… Read More

Climate Corner: ‘Silent Spring’ may be inevitable

Mar 4, 2023 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing… Read More

Across-the-board accountability needed for Northfolk Southern tragedy

Feb 28, 2023 The Marietta Times Aaron Dunbar The corporate bombing of East Palestine is one of the most damning indictments of our entire political system that I have ever witnessed. There are no partisan divisions to delineate who… Read More

Oil Companies Lying to You

Jan 17, 2023 Aaron Dunbar Letter to the Editor Marietta Times “On January 12th, the New York Times published an article entitled “Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds.” I was actually quite… Read More

Climate Corner: Celebrating failure

Dec 10, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com Coca-Cola Presents: COP27 took place last month in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, presumably scheduled between the annual Foxes Guarding Henhouses Convention and Lockheed Martin’s World Peace Extravaganza 2022. About as much was… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate, war and existential threats

Oct 29, 2022 Aaron Dunbar Jeffery Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, was recently a speaker at the Athens Democracy Forum in Athens, Greece. When comparing the primary forms of government among major… Read More

Climate Corner: Easy to ignore big picture

Sep 10, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com A man opens a newspaper and reads the headline: “Climate endgame: Risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored.’” He reads a paragraph into the story before folding the paper and skipping to the… Read More

Climate Corner: Trickle-up apocalypse

Aug 6, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com Unfettered climate chaos has ravaged the globe throughout July, as it is almost certainly guaranteed to do with increasing magnitude for the remainder of our days. Heatwaves across the U.S. have placed… Read More

EPA ruling far from ‘pro-life’

Letters to the editor  Jul 9, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com On June 24, America’s far right Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision establishing the constitutionality of abortion in the United States. But what… Read More