Abandon Hope
I am pleased to welcome Peter Carter as a Blogger on BoomerWarrior. (Editor for BoomerWarrior.org) Peter is a retired family MD who also spent many years working in environmental health development policy. You can also find Peter Carter on Uprage (Blog) and OnlyZeroCarbon (website). This article features a rare (but getting [...]
“Common Sense Revolution” needed to tackle Climate Change
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. The phrase ”Common Sense Revolution“ has been used as a political slogan to describe ‘common sense conservative’ platforms in Australia and the state of New Jersey in the 1990s. However, it is most widely known [...]
Female Warriors
For some, ‘warrior’ conjures up images of aggression, violence and brutality. A female friend of mine (Carole, also a Baby Boomer) dislikes the term ‘warrior’. “It’s too much a male artifact” she claims. My wife, on the other hand, likes the sound of BoomerWarrior. She is always so supportive. She says that it speaks about [...]
Prince Charles on Rio+20
Prince Charles I am quite impressed with the stance taken by Prince Charles on the ‘critical issues of the day’ in a video address about the Rio+20 world summit starting this week. He says that we cannot continue to ignore the peril we are in. We are sleepwalking, seemingly waiting for the worse to happen, [...]