This decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue to provide oxygen to our children's children.
The execution of Akmal Shaikh was another use of indirect aggression, showing the West that China doesn't care what it thinks and will do what it wants.
The 1930s were once described as "a low dishonest decade," and we could apply the term to the past ten years.
What was the decade of the '00s about? The following nine trends are a snapshot of some of the driving forces we're dealing with now at the turn of the decade.
The retrenchment of the American consumer blows a chill wind over the sentiments of consumers and business investment. Only the Obama administration's fiscal stimulus resists the decline of demand.
The execution of Akmal Shaikh, a heroin smuggler who suffered from bipolar disorder, raises questions about China's treatment of mentally ill prisoners.
It probably will not take 50 years for China to take over Taiwan, and China would probably not put up with the situation for that long.
A disturbing story out of China compels me to resolve that when critiquing the state of American democracy, I will always bear in mind how fortunate I am to have been born in the U.S.A.
There is an incredible opportunity to create domestic jobs, lower carbon emissions and lessen our dependence on foreign energy by stimulating the solar industry. We have the financial and solar resources to make it happen.
Is the quiet meditative expectation for a monk really in contradiction to a skateboard ride? Maybe outsiders don't understand the life of a monk in our contemporary world.
Forget how much we can trust the climate efforts of China and the rest of the developing world. How much can it trust ours?
There are certainly many alternatives for purchasing products with greater ethical standards. But let's face it -- parents are busy, disposable incomes are tight, children need stimulation, time is money, and this is America.
The vast differences between countries and within the environmental movement are telling as to how COP15 failed to result in a binding agreement. Where do we go from here?
How should Westerners respond to a conviction that violates our sense of decency? Above all, we should not wag fingers, or patronize.
The danger in China's off-balance sheet shell game is that a good percentage of the original loans have been made to companies with oodles of political clout but absolutely no chance of every repaying the loan.
Too many observers, in my view, are judging the Copenhagen Accord by the wrong yardsticks.
China has been widely blamed for the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks. Is that fair?
The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.
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I think we owe it to the Copenhagen participants to recognize that, for these two weeks, they made the debate over health care seem reasonable by comparison.
