The US needs to spend a trillion dollars over the next 20 years in order to upgrade and repair water infrastructure.

That is presuming we do what is needed to curb global heating. If we don't do that, we are on the path to a world of disasters — so what difference does one disaster more or less make?

Looking for a model of progress that does not depend on unending economic growth.

*[It seems that] Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.*

Venezuela bears a fraction of the responsibility for this event through its export of oil. But it is just a small fraction.

Renewable generation provided 30% of the world's electricity in 2023. This is expected to continue growing rapidly.

Various restrictions imposed on abortion by some US states correlated with higher rates of domestic homicide.

It is too early to determine how the recent bans on abortion have affected this correlation, but one must suspect that bans correlate with even higher increases.