Tom H. Hastings

‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.

The discussion around the British monarchy, which is starting to ignite and will grow and deepen, needs to take in the wider issue of wealth and income inequality and the poisonous economic system that fuels it.

"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."

"It puts our Nation’s wetlands – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."

The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.