In my parents' lifetime, we have killed 90 percent of the world's fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest -- unless we change our ways, fast.
In reality, Gordon Brown has failed because of a double-whammy: he has continued with lousy and unpopular right-wing policies, and he sells them appallingly.
There is so much space trash that scientists are warning it could be poised to take out the satellites we depend on every day -- and trap us here on a heating earth.
The Iranian Revolution was, from its first gasps, a marriage between two incompatible urges: theocracy and democracy. Only now are the two finally unraveling.
Will we allow a small number of rich people to make a short-term profit from seizing and burning resources, at the expense of our collective ability to survive?
In the Caribbean, majority-Muslim countries, and most of Africa, being gay is a death sentence -- yet many people who should be showing solidarity choose not to see it.
