So far -- and we're just halfway through -- we have seen uncontrollable wildfires in Australia that destroyed more than 47 million acres. But that was just the beginning.
Here are a few more notable events of 2020.
- A worldwide pandemic has killed more than half a million people, including more than 136,000 in the United States.
- Plagues of locusts have destroyed crops in southeastern Africa.
- A giant dust storm originating in the Sahara Desert has traveled halfway around the planet.
- Police killings of unarmed black citizens sparked ongoing protests amid calls for a serious reform of American policing.
- Republican states such as Texas, Florida and Georgia decided that reopening the economy was far more important than protecting citizens from the coronovirus. Now they are backpedaling as quickly as they can to try to stem the tide of new cases.
- The president* continues to praise white nationalists and demand the protection of statues honoring Confederate war heroes who fought against their own country.
- The president* and his minions are insisting that schools reopen on a normal schedule, despite the growing threat of coronavirus to teachers, staff and students in the majority of states.
- The southwestern states are dealing with record high temperatures, hitting 100 degrees F in southern New Mexico, where I live.
- The president* has failed to address in any way reports that Russia paid a bounty to Afghan militants for each US service person they kill.
- Americans are banned from numerous countries, including many in Europe, due to our government's failure to handle the pandemic.
- The president* announced that he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization. Thankfully the withdrawal won't happen for another year, by which time we hope to have a new, sane president in place who can cancel this idiotic action.
- A new flu virus with "pandemic potential" has been found in China.
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