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Summary: Climate change is a clear example of how decisions by small numbers of powerful humans, not population size, drive environmental degradation. The richest 1% of the world, about 63 million people, is responsible for more than twice as much greenhouse gas emissions as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity. Just 20 fossil fuel companies can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era. Regulating population size, as s...

Population panic is a distraction.

The abruptness seen in the Cambrian explosion can also be seen on smaller scales throughout the fossil record.

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The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.

"Lorenzo's Oil" is about two parents finding a cure for the disease ALD when medical doctors fail.

The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.

Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven new books for red-greens and green-reds to start the new year.

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