Republicans' response to Obama's climate plan is to extract more fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, Obama's plan isn't very different from that.

Some plutocrats are drawn to geoengineering schemes to try to compensate for our CO2 emissions.

The sulfate scheme is toxic and fails to prevent the other harm done by CO2: ocean acidification, which can kill a large fraction of the life in the oceans.

Removing CO2 by fertilizing plankton would prevent both problems. It might be better than allowing the disaster to happen.

However, we could still probably prevent the disaster through renewable energy, which would be better than stopping it using drastic measures.

What It's Like to Get a "National-Security Letter"

(that is, a demand to give data to the state secretly and you'll be imprisoned if you ever tell anyone).

Now that Republicans and Democrats have created a shortage of jobs in the US, Republicans blame individual Americans for having no work.

The island of Barbuda is destroying itself by sand mining to get short-term income.

Lots of irreplaceable things on Earth will be destroyed forever in this century, on the same logic. If we invest in sustainable activities, we can reduce this — but part of that is having fewer children.

Besides which, these beaches, this sand, will probably be inundated in this century anyway if we don't stop causing sea level to rise.