Women who want to have a baby and not go through pregnancy can now hire surrogates to do that for them.

As long as this process is expensive, thus limited to a few people, it is not a big burden for the world. The dangerous population growth is at present almost entirely due to non-surrogate pregnancies. But if surrogacy started making a significant contribution to population growth rates, I would suggest prohibiting it.

Why students should not look away from uncomfortable art, and why we should not hide it.

To cover up paintings of Exploitation of Labor and Hoarding of Wealth is to protect those practices from criticism. To hide from paintings showing the suffering of slavery is to avoid understanding that suffering.

US citizens: call on Congress to make big cuts in military spending.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Reestablishing forests is easier said than done, where the economic system pressures people or businesses to cut down trees.

Spending money to help people around the world cope with the effects of global heating is futile as the heating continues to increase. Spending to help people locally counteract damage that contributes to heating is going in the right direction.

I wonder if the solar ovens used in parts of Africa can function in Madagascar.

Hong Kong's activists defend universal principles rather than fighting for one group and against another.

However, there are rumors they might plan violence in their next protest.

Perhaps this is a misunderstanding. Perhaps the activists only recognize that the thugs may respond with violence to their next nonviolent protest.

Given that the puppet government is planning to send them to Chinese prisons, I could not blame morally them for fighting back with violence. But that would be foolish and self-defeating. Violent protests play into the hands of the authoritarians.