Pete Haug

2 months ago | favs.news | Pete Haug |a Ph.D

Commentary by Pete Haug | FāVS NewsAs a first order of business, our new president has withdrawn our country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accords. I’ve been tracking environmental issues for half a century, beginning before the 1972 publication of “The Limits to Growth” (LTG), the first report to the Club of Rome on the world problematique. LTG describes the complex of crucial problems (political, social, economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural) that humanity faces.

Jan 16, 2025 | favs.news | Pete Haug |a Ph.D

Commentary by Pete Haug | FāVS NewsCal celebrated his 90th birthday this December with 60+ friends at his party. I wasn’t able to make it, but I heard about it. Cal is my oldest friend in two senses — in actual age and in the total years we’ve known each other. I’ll be 89 in January, and I’ve known Cal since I was eight. If you consider other factors, we go back more than a century to the early 1900s. My mother’s parents lived across the street from his mother’s parents.

Jan 7, 2025 | favs.news | Pete Haug |a Ph.D

Commentary By Pete Haug | FāVS NewsThey called me “halbschwartz”  (half-Black), a label I wore with pride. It meant I’d been accepted into the small contingent of Black students in my class. We studied German together in a Massachusetts boarding school. We all came from middle-class families. I wasn’t aware of racial issues. My childhood was spent in an all-white village during the1930s and 40s.

Nov 19, 2024 | favs.news | Pete Haug |a Ph.D

Commentary By Pete Haug | FāVS NewsI write this as the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference begins. As a city boy at summer camp, I often sat alone in woodlands of the eastern deciduous forest. Sitting quietly, watching and listening, spoke to me. I felt, I intuited, something indescribable, yet palpable. I’d never heard of ecology, yet somehow I felt it. German scientist Ernst Haekel first used “ecology,” in 1866. It’s the study of interrelationships among organisms and their environments.

Oct 31, 2024 | favs.news | Pete Haug |a Ph.D

Commentary By Pete Haug | FāVS NewsLast week two major newspapers announced they would not endorse a presidential candidate. The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post announcements came within three days of each other. The Times is the largest newspaper in the Western United States and the sixth largest in the country. The Post is the third largest newspaper in the nation.