Why does bankrupt AIG get a bail-out while bankrupt Detroit and Chicago workers get pension cuts?

Humanity is unprepared for possible abrupt climate impacts.

US citizens: call on the FDA to ban menthol cigarettes. Menthol in cigarettes encourages people to start smoking.

The radioactive material leaking from the Fukushima meltdowns will kill people, including an estimated 800 eventual deaths (not soon) from eating contaminated fish.

This is 800 out of the millions who are likely to eat some of that fish.

800 deaths is a large number to result from a single accident. It is important to try to stop more radiative material from leaking into the ocean from Fukushima, since that as it continues leaking, it could kill more hundreds.

On the other hand, the danger to any individual from these leaks is minuscule; there is no point taking any trouble to make sure you never eat even a little of that fish.

US citizens: Phone Nancy Pelosi's office to pressure her to take a clear stand against "fast track" for the TPP.