Plastic Pollution Risks "Near Permanent Contamination of Natural Environment".

I suppose most of the plastic objects will be filtered out of the ocean in a few millennia, as various animals swallow them, and later die and fall to the bottom and become part of sediment. But that is a long time.

Local campaigns aim to persuade stores to use less plastic packaging, but for real effect we need laws.

Clinton is even more unpopular than the troll, because Democrats are fed up with center-right plutocratist Democrats.

Desertification in Africa is forecast to force 60 million people to migrate, within three years, because they can no longer survive where they are.

I think that they will have trouble finding any place to go, especially as population growth all around Africa will fill up the places they might have gone. A few million might survive for a while by moving into wildlife areas and killing the wildlife.

What can we do about this? For the most part, nothing. Serious efforts to curb global heating would take more than three years to make a difference.

However, a strong contraceptive program could easily avert a few million births among the affected populations, even in three years. This won't prevent that regional disaster, but would make it smaller.

Squatting, and squatters' rights, deserve our support.

Wealthy country governments are funding the new coal-fired power plants in Indonesia.