NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – Owing to the pandemic and other calamities, many referred to 2020 as a “biblical year.”
Now, however, it is starting to look like we are in a “biblical decade.” Between the floods in Western Europe, the wildfires in Greece and Turkey and the delta and mu variants of COVID-19, our planet and traditional way of life are coming increasingly under pressure.
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