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...Human Swarm As the debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed that a lot of discussions ignore one of the main causes of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We have been breeding like locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin...
...What we’d love to do is to take a picture of the planet,” he said...
Despite the failure to find water, Charbonneau said he believes the high pressure on the hot, massive planet could have brought hydrogen and oxygen together to create water...
...second planet, HD 209458b, studied by L. Jeremy Richardson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, shows signs of silicates in the atmosphere, according to a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...will be forced to rely on the natural resources of countries with, at the very least, un-democratic governments, including Russia. This may indicate the slow demise of the ideals of Western democracies as the point of reference for the great human rights and environmental issues that the planet will be facing. Inevitably, something else will take their place, and the world’s governing values will emerge from other cultural traditions. For better or worse, America and Europe will learn what it’s like to be a bystander...