The "green death" movement encourages letting human corpses decay and push up daisies, and trees, rather than embalming them so that they will remain unchanged for thousands of years.

Canada says that around 200 Canadians are under arrest or in prison in China, but that's the usual amount and doesn't seem to represent arbitrary retaliation.

Whether it is retaliation or not, the crucial point is that people arrested in China, whatever the motive, don't get a fair trial, and sometimes no trial at all. And they may be tortured.

I wish I could say that my country never did such things.

Short-sighted insurance and zoning regulations are pushing California housing away from the cities where there are jobs, and into fire-prone areas where fire insurance will not be available in the future at any price.

President Maduro of Venezuela is arresting human rights advocates even if they have not engaged in partisan politics, for criticizing his policies.

The US government has started ignoring UN complaints about US violations of human rights.

This is, in effect, dismisses the defense of human rights. It will encourage human rights violation all around the world.

It will encourage China to brazenly imprison both Chinese citizens and foreign visitors under torture and brainwashing conditions almost as bad as in Guantanamo.

Recycling plastic is technically difficult. Only a tiny fraction of the plastic that is collected for "recycling" is actually recycled.