Air and water pollution in China are rapidly getting worse.

An Indigenous group in Peru vows not to allow oil extraction, citing the way other areas' rivers have become polluted.

Peak Soil: Industrial Civilisation Is on the Verge of Eating Itself.

Problems like this must happen sooner or later as the population rises. In addition to eating less meat, and especially less beef, we need to reduce the birth rate so that the population starts to go down.

Patent trolls are only part of the harm done by the patent system.

Unsurprisingly, the Department of Homeland Security (formerly called the Committee for Public Safety) concluded that searching people's laptops at the border for no reason is a good policy. It based its conclusion on the premise that even a shadow of a possibility of preventing some crime (which could well be an act of journalism) is more important than your freedom. That premise, which the Obama regime seems to hold with increasing vigor, leads in only one direction: to a total surveillance state.