What innovations will appear? What likely technology will drive the future? Ultimately, what might mobilize the broad mass of humanity to actually change behavior within the next 10 years? Go to Green Technologies.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
(Ethan Allen, 1738-1789)

Matt Taibbi of “Rolling Stone” magazine has, in his own inimitable way, given us both a farcical and disturbing chronology of our unraveling health care reform debate and by implication the real possibility of the unraveling of America itself. The upcoming climate/energy debate, in many ways far more complex, may prove to be equally as dismal.

Man will never be free till the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
(Denis Diderot, 1713-1784)

Probably it's about time we finally stopped thinking of America's pseudo health care system just in the abstract sense.

It might be more productive to focus on the specific names of those who actually run health care America; in the meantime of course let us not forget those members of Congress that consistently grasp the "rubber stamp" of benightedness.

The economic model has broken, for good. It's time to stop pretending it describes our world.
(Douglas Rushkoff, writer and media analyst)

Whenever I hear someone claim that capitalism or the free market is the pinnacle of economic development and is really the “natural” state of humankind, I can't help thinking of the once sacrosanct divine right of kings.

If we Americans truly believe we want a sustainable society, we're going to have to create a functioning health care system now. There is no such thing as being a "little bit pregnant" or waiting passively another 60 years for something to possibly happen.

Dear Australia,

Stop worrying, some of America's best minds have concluded that climate change is all a clever hoax, and nothing more than just a despicable con instigated by all those greedy scientists to get public funds for their useless, make-work projects.

Everyone knows it's just a cyclical thing, an occasional solar flare--a hiccup of moonbeams--so to speak; after all, 250 million years ago it was a lot hotter and we can obviously see that life is functioning just fine thank you.