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Weisman: People are scared that we may have gone a little too far on this planet. Systems are breaking down - that could be cataclysmic. The warming of the atmosphere has gotten everybody's attention. I'm speaking to you from Western Massachusetts where the thermometer hit 60 yesterday and was four degrees below zero three days before. Weather is going crazy everywhere. Ice caps are melting, and we're hearing that could push sea levels up. You know the drill...
...With luck, those will be instructive lessons. Every species in the history of biology that has reached the end of its resources has suffered a population crash. And we are going to. We've been stretching our food supply, ... force-feeding our soils with chemicals, and we've gotten to the point where it's starting to really bite back at us. There will be a population crash of humans. Either it's one we manage ... or nature is going to do it for us, and that's not going to be pretty. There's going to be famine, there...
...same time made the familiar strange, and turned the known world upside down. As they see London property prices bid to the skies by an influx of foreigners, native Cockneys may one day wonder what the new world has to offer them. Hong Kong, for its part, has gotten rich on the back of China. But it is a city of just 6.9 million people. China's largest metropolis, Shanghai, holds 18 million, and the mainland has scores of other rising cities, all ambitious for their moment on the world stage. Hong Kong must continually raise its game to maintain...
Nothing gives principal Suraya Sarwary more pleasure than the sound of her second-grade girls reciting a new lesson out loud. Six years ago, that sound could have gotten her executed. The Taliban had outlawed education for girls, but a few brave teachers taught them in secret. Sarwary, now the principal of Karokh District Girls High School in Afghanistan's Herat province, recalls gathering students furtively in her home and imparting lessons in whispers for fear that her neighbors might report her to the Taliban...
...tried to alter their country's constitutions--some successfully--to cling to power. African voters are to some extent complicit in the undermining of democracy. When given an opportunity to vote out one corrupt leader, they often elect another, hoping he will be more generous with his ill-gotten gains...