Naomi Klein connects global heating to the plutocratic system that has subjugated democracy.

Klein is right that reducing your personal energy consumption is not an effective action. Under a market system, the fossil fuel you don't use will be sold to someone else. The way to reduce the total use of fossil fuel is by macro-policies such as placing more tax on such use.

The let's-win-over-the-billionaires environmentalism that Klein shows is ineffective is the climate analogue of "open source," which says, "Let's win over the businesses by not saying things they wouldn't like." They got a lot of shallow success, but it didn't have deep roots.

Information provided by Edward Snowden proves that the NSA has penetrated national and international networks operated by German companies in ways that they cannot figure out.

Everyone: call on the Pennsylvania legislature to stop impeding abortion.

US citizens: sign this petition to require disclosure of fracking chemicals.

US citizens: sign this petition to put a price on carbon emissions.