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H. Patricia Hynes

H. Patricia Hynes is a retired professor of environmental health, directs the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice in western Massachusetts. She has written and edited 7 books, among them The Recurring Silent Spring (nominated for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award) and Justice. Her most recent book is Hope but Demand Justice. She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, environment, and public health.

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There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children*

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from weapons companies that contribute to human rights violations.  Their vote included Israel’s ongoing genocide, starvation and destruction of everything that makes life in Gaza possible.  The Medford City Council passed […]

Climate Crisis
We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon dioxide (C02) in the atmosphere, may be sufficient in time to melt polar icecaps and submerge all coastal cities.  These predictions, which are proving accurate, were buried by the fossil […]

Climate Crisis
We Made the Climate Breakdown; We can Halt It, before it is too Late

We Made the Climate Breakdown; We can Halt It, before it is too Late

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature)In the summer of 2023, researchers “binge-watched 250 of the most-rated movies” of the past 10 years for climate research purposes.   A mere 13 percent of films made mention of climate-related disasters, some more seriously and others “offhandedly” in dialogue.  In contrast, since the rise of Hollywood as the […]

Biodiversity
The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A postcard I use as a bookmarker contains a set of principles for gardening in urban soils for minimizing risks to human health from exposure to lead and other contaminants.  Developed many years ago for Boston Natural Areas Network by Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, a toxicologist, and myself, […]

Biodiversity
The Serviceberry:  Native American Ecology and the End of Carbon Capitalism

The Serviceberry: Native American Ecology and the End of Carbon Capitalism

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No one wrote more powerfully about humans’ poisoning the Earth and its consequences than biologist Rachel Carson–with a focus on one contaminant, the pesticide DDT.  She traced its toxicity through the food chain of nature and the loss of beneficial insects and birds, and then warned of […]

Democracy
A Do-it-Yourself Kit for Defeating Trumpism: Because the Mainstream Politicians Won’t

A Do-it-Yourself Kit for Defeating Trumpism: Because the Mainstream Politicians Won’t

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Republican Administration’s edicts – imposed by broligarchs President Trump and Elon Musk – are with us for the next two to four years.  Who/what will defeat them? Not the inside-the Beltway Democratic politicians.  Most are supine and silent, or cautious and cowardly, or helping to advance […]

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On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s Equality:  What will it Take, What will it Yield?

On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s Equality: What will it Take, What will it Yield?

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – International Women’s Day (now March 8) had its origins in great social unrest, turbulence and critical debate among women in Western countries regarding their oppressive working conditions in factories and their lack of voting rights.  Marching through New York City in 1908, 15,000 women demanded shorter hours, […]

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Above all Now, Workers’ Unions are the Way Forward

Above all Now, Workers’ Unions are the Way Forward

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – My father was a family doctor in the mid-twentieth century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to his “large, poor family,” as he liked to describe us.  Dad never turned away a patient who couldn’t pay and brought in indigent patients from […]

Climate Crisis
In a Time of Oligarchy, a New People’s (Women’s) March for a Green New Deal

In a Time of Oligarchy, a New People’s (Women’s) March for a Green New Deal

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pick up any US liberal newspaper today and there are reams of columns speculating on the fate of our country.  What will happen and how quickly to our country with Trump as president and a cabinet of billionaires as they destroy an already shredded social safety net?  […]

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