Green objection to technologies are not anti-science; rather, they are against extrapolating too far from limited scientific knowledge.

Oil spills in Alberta show how toxic tar sands oil is.

Thomas Friedman aims to make massive US poverty look acceptable: holding out hope of very unlikely kinds of success and pretending we could all do it.

Being an entrepreneur involves taking a risk: most of those who try this fail. Around 1990 I read that 90% of new businesses in the US failed within 5 years; I doubt it has changed much. Most Americans can't afford to take a risk like this.

Proposed UK Internet censorship would be dangerous, ineffective, and inconsistent.

And it might distract people from other sorts of censorship — such as increasing blockage of sites used for sharing copies of works.

Thugs in schools combined with "zero tolerance" policies lead systematically to arresting, injuring and killing students.