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...Your article about endangered species is timely and begs the question as to why this crisis has been put on the back burner for so long while all attention has been focused on climate change. Species extinction is real and irrefutable while the science regarding climate change is not overwhelming. Sure the climate is changing, but it may not be entirely our fault. But it is our fault that the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo and the elephant bird, among many others, are extinct and that thousands more may go the same way. So let's focus our attention on what...
...kids in the global candy store; they want everything, and they buy everything, laying waste to the environment and helping enact political policies that help the rich get even richer. In this model, rich Americans will never give up their God-given right to buy a hulking new six-burner range even if they never cook...
There's been a lot in the press about, Well, the President should focus on the economy, the economy, the economy, and the other things that he's putting on the front burner, like health care or education, should be on the back. This is where, I think, the President's instincts are absolutely right, that the way we're going to create a great economy and a strong country and a vibrant democracy is by better educating all of our children. And this is a cliché, but if you think education is expensive, try ignorance...
Some women have it all - but maybe they shouldn't. Controversial radio therapist and self-help guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger argues that mothers' careers belong on the back burner while they raise their children themselves. A self-described "recovering feminist," Schlessinger says watching a documentary on childbirth at age 35 summoned the maternal instincts she believes are present in even the most "liberated" of women. She spoke with TIME about her tough-love advice, her talking action figure and her 12th book, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms. (Read "What Mother Nature Teaches Us About Motherhood...
...dark, may be the closest thing we'll have. That's all right - at a time when a recent Gallup poll reports that a record-high 41% of Americans think global warming is exaggerated, green groups need to do everything they can to keep this issue on the front burner, here and in the rest of the world. "The take home message from Earth Hour should be that we are not alone," says Roberts. "I want people to go to the website, but after, I want them to send a letter to their congressman." So think of it this...