Selected Articles
Charlene Spretnak wrote this essay after the town where she lives almost burned down in the Thomas fire in December 2017. A new possibility for talking about climate-change action with climate-change deniers is proposed in the wake of the many extreme weather events that year. This article was published on the FeminismAndReligion.com site on 21 February 2018.
This op-ed piece (San Francisco Chronicle, 19 November 2000) identified the puzzling decision Al Gore and his campaign staff made that caused them to fail to pick up needed Green votes in the final two weeks of the 2000 campaign: they decided not to make public concessions to to the Green Party platform (which would not have required negotiating a deal with Ralph Nader). This is what liberal parties in many countries do when it's clear that they cannot win without the votes of Greens or other minority parties: they publicly promise to take several policy actions advocated by the Greens that are not in the liberal party's platform.