Two essential elements to our survival are oxygen and water. One hears a lot of talk about the depletion of the Amazon rainforest and how it will affect our oxygen supply globally, and while its destruction is terrible, bordering on criminal, most of the oxygen produced by that rainforest is actually consumed back into the rainforest itself - essentially adding very little to the net sum of available oxygen globally. It might surprise you to know that our oceans produce anywhere from 50% or...

When the Soviet bloc, the former USSR, disintegrated in 1991, it was a turning point for the world, not only because communism fell, but globalization took a giant leap as Russia, and all the satellite states formerly part of the Soviet bloc, now entered into free trade on the global market. Then there was China, which during 1990s shifted from strict adherence to Maoist communism and adopted the party-state capitalist platform, essentially combining global market commercialism while...