Where Do We Go from Here?

1. Let’s talk about nuclear power and other energy sources — …is it right to enrich ourselves by degrading our children’s future? If your answer is no, then certain actions must follow. [And] Is it better to bequeath our children the remaining problems associated with disposing of nuclear waste, or life in a climate-induced dark age? — This article is out of Australia, but we could stand to ask ourselves the same questions.
2. Tyranny of the Christian Right — In the coming years, we will probably see the curtailment of the civil rights that gay people, women and religious minorities have won in the last few decades. — Emmanuel Todd says the modernization process is violent. Would a de-modernization process likewise be violent? Do we really want to find out? —