The towns of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach were underwater Monday as an unnamed coastal storm dumped as much as 15″ of rain.
“Women, in all of their diversity, must be at the center of climate and energy decision-making.”
A revolution in the way we perceive and respond to today’s world was started by two women, one of whom is now enshrined on the Women’s Monument on the Lexington green where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired.
…struggles of environmental justice often fall on deaf ears.
Advocates say not enough has been done since.
In her acceptance speech for the 1952 John Burroughs award, Rachel Carson said, “Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, and his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed.”