This painting shows the relatively common dynamic of servant women teaching young, relatively well off, white boys how to fish for Eels. At this time there was a slight boom in Eel fishing, which was a result of the initial rise in market. The Three-Village area was pretty much a sleepy area and no real industry would develop until after the Civil War.
Even though Michael Hickey, a local resident of Hoosick Falls, discovered high levels in PFOA in the water in 2014, it wasn't officially announced until 2016 that the water was deemed unsafe by public officials. This marked the beginning of a long battle between the town and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the company responsible for releasing the chemicals.
Thoreau walks from Sandwich to Provincetown, detailing the natural splendor he sees along the way. This includes homes, beaches, farms, townspeople, and other elements of nature.
The Mayflower docks in Provincetown harbor, where the Mayflower Compact is signed. After exploring the area and encountering the Native Americans living there they decide to sail on to Plymouth.
This 2020 publication in the Wall Street Journal describes an interesting phenomenon it describes as the "Fake Climate Debate". This debate is between the two extremes - on one side, total deniers like Donald Trump who won't even consider the need for a climate change mitigation plan, and on the other, climate alarmists like Swedish 17-yr-old Greta Thunberg. The author here argues that the loud and brash debate between these groups is actually irrelevant, and that the real scientists are still conversing in the background. In countries where climate change is an accepted fact and a problem to be solved, the writer would be correct to conclude arguing with deniers such as President Trump is a waste of time. In the US, however, where climate change is still just making onto the political docket, those debates still lead to further support of mitigation efforts and understanding of the impacts of climate change in the future.
This Op-Ed in the New York Times is essentially framed as a blatant appeal to the soon-to-be-President to stop rejecting science and return the US to its brief track of environmental stewardship. This article demonstrates how political the conversation about climate change and environmentalism in general had gotten by 2016, when the US President-Elect himself was a climate change denier.
This article written in the Cincinnati Enquirer discusses the unfortunate consequence of the Climategate emails - there was a 15 percentage point drop in the proportion of adults who believed climate change is a large concern and should be a high priority in government between 2007 and 2009. It discusses how politicized academics had become and how that is posing a huge issue for the trustworthiness of scientists according to the public, a problem that has only gotten worse over the past decade since this article was written.
This article, written by the Washington Post and published in the Tampa Bay Times, describes the release of emails later known as "Climategate". The article digs into a few key points people have discussed from the emails, however fails to note anything of real significance that would lead to a dismissal of climate change as a reliable conclusion of their data.
This column in the Tampa Bay Times points out in simple terms how climate change will impact everyone through the variety of health issues it will pose, as well as how its impacts will be disproportionate among the poor, the elderly, and the uninsured. The column lists simple acts individuals can take to "do their part", however it places too much responsibility on the individual consumer as opposed to advocating for systemic or political change.
This article from the Wall Street Journal describes the new stance of the American Geophysical Union, which includes over 41,000 scientists world-wide. The APG released a statement that they are now "virtually certain" that climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions and that the warming will continue, further confirming the scientific consensus that climate change is real and a threat.
This article in the Wall Street Journal details some of the complications of the climate system as reasons not to conclude the climate is warming, and then proceeded to discuss some of the political implications of reacting one way or another about climate change. The writer concluded in the end that climate change is impossible to predict and therefore shouldn't be worried about, even as the IPCC was working on completing their third Climate Assessment that very same year.
This article from the Atlanta Daily World depicts what it calls Environmental Fanaticism, which appears to be a form of alarmism related to climate change. The writer clearly disagrees with the measures set to be discussed later that year in Kyoto, and is not convinced any economic degradation of any kind can be worthwhile when he claims scientists haven't reached a consensus about climate change or how humans may be contributing to it.
This Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal was in response to a few different pieces about climate change. The writer here argues that scientists are still disagreeing about if the atmosphere is even warming, what the costs of that warming might be, and also if that potential warming might actually be beneficial. He concludes that there is no point in inviting in economic disaster over something that might not even be a problem, meanwhile the majority of the climate science community had agreed that the climate was warming for quite a few years, and that it likely was going to start causing problems soon.
Initially under the control of the Matinecock Native American Tribe, Northport was eventually acquired by the Dutch in 1656 through purchase. The Dutch first came to Northport in 1650, where they reported fertile soil and good land. The Dutch would immediately transform the land from a sustenance based existence to an economic based existence, trading with the Native Americans and working to acquire capital.
Initially a farming town, in the 1830's Northport became a shipbuilding area. As the vessels at this time were wooden, a lot of environment was cleared out in order to use resources on ships at the time, similar to the over usage of natural resources in other locations.
This Letter to the Editor published in the New York Times in 1988 included some very solid climate science, but drew a very different conclusion than might've been expected in the hottest year on record - that a brand new ice age was right on the cusp. Conveniently, the author still recommended the same emissions reduction techniques oft-cited for warming mitigation, so even with misguided conclusions his advice was still sound.
The Northport Power Station was built by the Long Island Lighting Company, and would later be used by National Grid USA. This power plant would go on to pollute the atmosphere with 5.2 million metric tons of CO2 every year, and is exempt from the Clean Air Act due to it being grandfathered in.
This Wall Street Journal Opinion article published in 2012 details a laundry list of reasons that politicians shouldn't be focusing their efforts on climate change mitigation, but misses the mark when describing the science that supports climate change. The author here claims that a consensus hadn't yet been reached on whether climate change was really occurring and even stated that increased CO2 in the atmosphere may even prove beneficial for the planet, which has been easily disproven by the negative impacts that could already be seen globally at that point in time.
In 2001, after 9/11, mayor Rudolph Giuliani closed the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. While this seemed like a great idea at the time it actually lead to some issues that were not solved until mayor Bloomberg, in 2006, signed legislation to create a new method of disposing solid waste. Aditionally, in 2020, Fresh Kills is now becoming a park.