Paul Ehrlich: "Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades."

Proposals to allow assisted suicide only for people that are likely to be dead in 6 months are not adequate for dementia.

Many people suffer from dementia for years, effectively zombies, before some other illness kills the corpse. By the time, six months before the latter, they would be allowed to get help with suicide, they would no longer be competent to invoke that right.

The "great Pacific garbage patch" is four times as big as people thought.

The EU plans to make Internet sellers pay a sales tax to the country where the client is.

The US Labor Department estimated the amount of tips that its plan would take away from waiters, but the amount was so large it would arouse hostility. So the department said it was unable to estimate the amount.

From Republicans, dishonesty is standard practice. Plutocratist Democrats do it too.