Pakistan turns unemployed workers into tree planters

[ad_1] The country’s ambitious reforestation project has received a surprise influx of laborers, thanks to coronavirus. In 2018, Pakistan pledged to plant ten billion trees in an effort to slow climate change and to replenish a landscape that has been decimated by decades of deforestation, livestock grazing, and drought. It was an ambitious goal, but […]

This May Day, celebrate the front-line workers

[ad_1] It’s Loyalty Day today in what the United States president calls “the most just and virtuous nation in the history of the world.” First declared by President Eisenhower in 1955, it replaced Americanization Day, started in 1921 because the Commies rebranded it as International Workers Day. Perhaps today we should be celebrating and cheering […]