Another in the dishonor roll of the world’s most heavily polluted sites is the Niger Delta, at the mouth of the River Niger. Before the nation of Nigeria came into existence, the area was the largest point of export for the slave trade, thereby marking it with bad karma for the centuries to come. Although […]
Shortsightedness, greed, and the pressures of an expanding population brought about a concentration of pollution in Indonesia’s Citarum River that is unrivaled anywhere else in the world. The higher cost of fuel in the 1970s forced businesses to cut expenses. Identifying cheaper labor was one avenue for companies to improve their profit and loss statements. […]
I learned this song at summer camp — a camp which was, not coincidentally, run by Pete’s elder brother John Seeger, who died last year at age 95. At Camp Killooleet, community singing was a regular feature, and one of the musicians who led the kids was a guy named George Ward; I learned this […]