The world after Earth Day

Friday was Earth Day, an opportunity to share clean-ups, concerns and celebrations of our blue-blue spaceship planet home.

Earth Day offers the chance to reflect on the critical changes we, the people, mostly of the United States, but truly all of us across the earth, must embrace and enact if the planet we say we love and cherish has a chance of healing.

The environmental – or more properly, existential – news was not good over the weekend. In our backyard a report from scientists came out that the Olympic peninsula glaciers will finish melting away, disappearing in the next 50 ye...