Detroit Citizens Vow Direct Action to Protect Their Right to Water.

Global heating doesn't hurt everything. It helps locusts, for instance.

Poor families in the UK can't afford to rent more than a shed to live in.

It could be worse: they could be homeless as in the US.

The UK has enough rooms of housing, but policies encourage the rich to use up a lot of space, pushing purchase and rental prices up and leaving the poor with too little.

Two Chilean officials have charged with murdering two Americans in Chile, with the help of the then head of the US military mission.

This was done shortly after the US-organized September 11 attacks.

Many Americans despise poor people, not realizing that they too are very likely to be poor some day.

Poor people don't deserve contempt for asking for help. We must give poor people what they need in order to have a decent life. All children deserve good food, a good education, and everything else children should have.

However, poor people have a responsibility, too, as well as rights: they must not act so as to increase their needs. Specifically, they should not have children. Reproduction is a desire, not a necessity. For most people, of all the things they do, reproduction is what puts the biggest ecological burden on the world.