Capitalism makes everything possible.
Capitalism leads to wealth, wealth leads to investment, investment spawns innovation, and through glorious creative destruction, today’s innovations surpass and replace yesterday’s, creating more wealth. Through capitalist initiative, civilization has advanced beyond the wildest imaginings of our forbears. Today we cure diseases that were incurable. We cultivate miracle crops [...]

Five Megawatt Offshore Wind
Turbines Are Now Being Installed

Editor’s note: Terawatts of energy bombard earth daily via the sun’s rays, but competitively converting renewable solar energy into usable energy, electricity in particular, remains a formidable hurdle. When evaluating totally renewable sources of energy for their economic viability, the world’s oceans beckon as an alternative quietly [...]

Indian scientist and writer Vandana Shiva sees globalization as a threat to biodiversity

Vendana Shiva
curriculum vitae

Editor’s note: Robert Shapiro, former CEO of Monsanto, and someone who passionately believed in his work, stated “The application of contemporary biological knowledge to issues like food and nutrition and human health has to occur, for the same reasons that things [...]

Horning in on Extinction or a Rebound?

Black Rhino Charge
photo: WildAid

A Black Rhino lazily reaches for leaves along the shady trees in Zimbabwe, Africa. The 3,000 pound male suddenly lifts his head as an all too familiar scent reaches his gaping nostrils. He takes a step back and raises his ears to trace the location [...]

An enlightened mystic of this age, Osho, has proclaimed that the third world war can happen due to water– or, rather, the lack of it. The statistics say the same thing: as the share of fresh water per person decreases globally, and the population demanding it increases, there are bound to be conflicts which, as [...]