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Short Read of the Week for July 28, 2022

This morning we discussed six articles, and from them chose one that we suggest you read even if you don’t read anything else this week:

Try to Resist the Call of the Doomers
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/opinion/climate-doomers-possibility.html
[our copy here]

We also chose to recommend the article below for its reminder that our youth have a lot at stake and a lot to offer in solving environmental problems:

Youth offer water solutions
https://www.mailtribune.com/education/2022/07/25/youth-offer-water-solutions/
[our copy here]

And we chose to recommend the article below because the "God Gap" that David French is talking about is driving non-white voters away from the Democratic party. There's good evidence here that he's right, and that it could be hurting us in Tillamook County.

The God Gap Helps Explain a 'Seismic Shift' in American Politics
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-most-important-religious-divide
[our copy here]


Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2022/8/6/short-read-of-the-week-for-july-28-2022.