How can climate change be happening and global warming be real, if the United States has been experiencing one of our coldest months in a long time with record snowfalls in some states?

What if the fires in California are happening more frequently, with greater severity, or the storms and hurricanes in the South and Midwest are greater in number and intensity?

Is this the way it always has been, and ever will be, or is something else afoot?

Remember the line from the Pogo comic strip in the Sunday papers..."we have met the enemy, and he is us".''

What if that is true with us with respect to the environment and the planet on which we live.

Clark Wright, an environmental attorney for forty-two plus years, has been an active participant in the ongoing tension between individual liberty and perhaps the greater goal of regulating the rules of the road, when it comes to the environment.

This week, Clark gives us optimistic take on where we are, and where we need to go to pass onto the next generation and beyond a safe and healthy place to live.