The unmentionable issue: population

I hold out little hope that the world's leaders and governments will do enough soon enough to avert a global catastrophe of climate change, rising sea levels, desertification, pollution, exhaustion of resources, famine, uncontrolled mass migration and war.  So I am glad I shall not live long enough to see this disaster unfold.

Even so, I was dismayed and disappointed to find that the recent report of the IPCC panel made no mention of the underlying problem of overpopulation.

Why nationalism is evil

In correspondence with a friend I recently referred to the Scottish National Party (SNP) as “evil”.  While not disagreeing, my friend asked me why I had used that word.  This was my response: