President Morales of Bolivia was reelected after his socialist policies reduced poverty and grew the economy.

You can cause economic growth with right-wing policies too, as the US and UK have demonstrated, but doing it that way increases poverty.

Louisiana plans a megaproject to reclaim some of the 2000 square miles lost to the sea in the last century.

In principle, it is a good idea, but it will be futile if we don't stop pumping out the greenhouse gases that melt icecaps and raise sea level even more.

Ireland will close one of the tax loopholes that multinational corporations use to avoid paying tax on their income cross Europe.

However, Ireland's low corporation tax still constitutes beggar-thy-neighbor. The rest of Europe, if it were not corrupted by those same corporations, would make Ireland stop this.

Modern western society isolates the young and the old, leaving them with no idea of anything to want except wealth.

The statistics cited are from the UK, but I expect it is true in the US as well.

When hippies wished to live in communes, it had to be a rejection of the beginnings of this. The communes failed because just wishing isn't enough to make a new social system succeed.

The loneliness of old people, many of whom had children, shows that having children is not a solution.

Being part of some other sort of community, such as a political activist community that defends people who are being exploited, can make your life a lot less lonely as well as helping others.

"Sports drinks" are mostly used outside of the context of sports, and are bad for people's health.