Jobs gloom: a military solution?

Primate gloom

The first comprehensive review in five years of the world's more than 600 species of primate found that almost 50 per cent are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Announced at the International Primatology Congress in Edinburgh earlier this month, the report by the world's leading p...

Cosmology , Doom , and Gloom

Australia's bushfire gloom

After ten consecutive years of drought, the last three severe and this current summer breaking almost all records for high temperatures and low rainfall, Australia is suffering bushfires of unprecedented intensity. A fire danger rating of 50 is extreme, 100 uncontrollable: the fire danger rating on February 6 was 180, and some reports have it as high as 400 on the next day, which is being calle...

Olympic conservation gloom

The European brown bear is one of the continent's most threatened species, being found in low numbers in many of their remaining, fragmented habitats. The largest population, numbering around 160, are found in the Pindus Mountains of northern Greece. But even this population is under increasing pressure from human activity and events such as the extensive forest fires last summer. Conservationi...

Gloom, Doom, and Inequality

mics, policy makers, and even politicians that poverty and inequality should no longer be treated as soft “social issues” that can safely be subordinated to more fundamental interests in maximizing total economic output. The most important sources of this newfound concern with poverty and inequality are (1) the spectacular increase in economic inequality and other forms of disadvantage in many ...