
There’s a partisan standoff in Congress over raising the national debt limit, and a deeper issue is fast-rising debt that neither party has successfully addressed.And we’ve recently documented the incomplete progress worldwide toward those Paris goals. To some extent, maintaining a strong economy and sustainable habitats are intertwined. In coming weeks the Monitor will be covering the U.S. And most say in polls they support the Paris Agreement goal – which nations formally signed on Earth Day 2016 – of addressing climate change by shifting increasingly toward clean energy sources. Yet difficult challenges lie ahead. Most Americans do pay the taxes they owe.

Questions of individual and collective responsibility.

Whether you’re thinking about fiscal or planetary health, big issues are currently at stake.

This coming Saturday is when protecting our planet’s environment will be in focus, globally.And I’m seeing a connection. taxpayers were supposed to file their 2022 returns by yesterday. Earth Day, this is Tax Day.Maybe it’s because I edit stories about both the economy and the environment, but this year I couldn’t help but notice the proximity of these two days on the calendar.
