John Derbyshire's November Diary has plenty of China- themed worries for your delectation. Will a war break out in northeast Asia? Would we have the will to face it? Do Russia, Korea, Japan think we do?
John also comments on this story of an environmental disaster, which they are handling the way they did SARS: incompetence followed by denial.
And then there is the bird flu panic. Scott Weidensaul, an excellent writer--see here for some of his books-- takes note of the hysteria here. He tells you who (NOT wild birds) is responsible. But guess who wants to cull the birds now?
Matt says, savagely: "If I'm for drilling ANWR, I'm all over this. Let's drain the "big swamp" of Arctic waterfowl breeding grounds and rid ourselves of disease-ridden birds and mosquitoes in one swoop. The world is clearly warming, which is a great thing and means millions of acres of under-developed real estate are about to open up. Let's get a jump on this and turn tundra
wasteland into productive farms and cities and oil refineries. It's only the patriotic thing to do, even
if we have to invade Canada to do it."
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