Longer Step: Ideas for Justice and Sustainability

Honor to the defenders and supporters of Ukraine. In such a major geopolitical struggle, it's wise to ask: Are we seeing it correctly; is our media presenting it fairly? Kruschev's daughter, who lives in the US and keeps in touch with Russian sentiment, says that Russians don't want the war; they see the body bags coming back but are told not to talk about it; they are imprisoned if they complain about the war, so they have to outwardly support it; but they also see the war as "Putin v Biden"--a political dispute--with both of them at fault. What we see is naked aggression and war crimes committed by a dictator desperate to become a Russian hero leaving a great legacy. That he invented a false narrative to justify his mass killing. That he will fail, if the US and Europe remain committed to Ukraine's defense. An entire city administration in Karkhiv has been moved to a big basement, where mostly middle-aged and older women run everything (as most of the men an

 The Great Salt Lake is within five years of completely disappearing (cities and farms have been taking almost all the water that used to flow into the lake). This will likely become an ecological disaster, with likelihood of toxic metals blowing (in sandstorms off the lakebed) into the cities, which already have very bad air quality due to terrain-based inversions made worse by human air pollution, and the possible loss of entire species of birds. We must change the way we live, or maybe move tens of millions of people out of the desert areas, if they cannot adapt properly to care for their area. NPR article here .