Being seven million strong has renewed talk about the implications of an overpopulated world. The issues are not only providing enough food and water, but also the environmental consequences of being so numerous and growing. To some there’s human rights implications as well since more people could mean more abuses. Still some fear problems with…

Mexico is reforming its constitution to recognize the right to food. The UN said that with this reform Mexico joins a select group of countries whose constitution already includes that right. As an idea, the right to food is so perfect, until one realizes that without legislation to implement it so that the right becomes…

When we’re done with old equipment and other technological devices, we give them to third world countries, usually feeling proud of ourselves for having helped them. Often though we’re not helping them, we’re just being thoughtless. The lack of electricity, spare parts or trained operators often means that technology developed in the US or Europe…