Author: Tony Prettyman

The water crisis in the United States stretches way beyond the city of Flint, Michigan, and at the heart of all of these problems is dysfunctional, Republican-controlled government. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: The water crisis that’s been taking place in Flint, Michigan has made the news because of just the catastrophic levels of failure on behalf of the republican controlled government, the environmental protection agency and the environmental destruction being caused by that specific crisis. However, according to a new Reuters analysis, there are at least 3000 other places within...

Whether its droughts, floods, or wildfires, the last few years of extreme weather events have been catastrophic in the United States. And according to an analysis by scientists, most of these events are related to climate change, and therefore could have been entirely avoidable. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA or NOAA has come out and said that they have analyzed extreme weather events for the year 2015 working with 116 different scientists from all around the globe, and they have determined that of these...