On-line bank statements make it hard for customers to keep track.

It is hard to protect an Indonesian rainforest against desperate violent local people determined to cut down the trees and farm.

This is going to get worse as population increase makes food scarce. Human population growth will be stopped, so let's stop it before the mass extinction.

Rich people are buying remote retreats with airstrips, hoping to use them to escape the global disaster they are preparing for everyone else.

The article ends by saying that the rich should hide from shame rather than from fear. I suggest they ought to face both.

I think it would be a good idea to maintain published lists of the plutocrats and their families — so that they won't believe they will be allowed to escape after dooming most of humanity to disaster.

Afghan women protested the government's failure to include women in the cabinet.

Women in the cabinet is either a proxy or a substitute for government policies that respect women's rights. I am sure the Afghan government doesn't do that very much either.

With people taking so many photos, they shouldn't think that this involves any creativity.

I don't consider my photos art, and I don't aspire to making photos that are great. I think of them as a way to show people beautiful or interesting places I have seen. Some of them are scenes that surely many have photographed, and some are not.