Today I walked Tennessee Valley to the beach after reading this from Lisa Friedman, the climate reporter for the NY Times:

During his presidency, Donald Trump dissolved more than 100 environmental regulations. If elected again, he would kill any federal effort to study and fight climate change, encourage oil and gas companies to “Drill, Baby, Drill” and restrict the government agency that protects air and water.

I returned home to learn that a quarter-million Washington Post readers canceled their subscriptions after Jeff Bezos declined to allow the paper to endorse Kamala Harris, a figure first reported by NPR and then by The Post itself. That is about 10 percent of the total circulation. 

While walking, I remembered being on Monhegan Island almost 30 years ago.  A man had fallen down a cliff and rescuers rappelled down to bring him up on ropes.  There were no roads or cars so a group of us alternated, three on each side,  one in front, and one in back, carrying the stretcher along the paths to the dock where he could be put on a boat. On an island, it’s clear we’re in this together, but this earth is also an island,  a fragile environment we share.  We’re interdependent.  We care.