For Earth Day, look past the hyped-up rhetoric

As our politics degrade, so does our ability to deal with the most urgent issue we all face.

Climate change is so very hard to wrap your head around, especially for people like us who live in an area where a river runs through it and powers our homes and businesses with green, hydro-electric energy.

It’s easy to be complacent here, until August anyway.

That’s when, over the last few years, we’ve c...