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With the public increasingly aware about the dangers of global warming, some consumers swear off travel. For most Americans, annual commuting to work produces more carbon emissions than limited air travel. But air travel is rapid and relatively inexpensive, and a passenger’s share of carbon emitted during a couple of long-distance flights quickly exceeds the typical annual commute by car. So...

Extreme weather events, a growing population, increasing affluence adding more meat to diets and diversion of grain crops for subsidized biofuels have led to depleted food reserves and soaring prices reserves. High oil prices add to the complications of transferring food aid to the most vulnerable developing nations. Wealthy nations can compensate by reducing tariffs and importing more grain,...

Environmental and human-rights activists around the globe criticize the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, Three Gorges Dam in China, for its displacement of more than a million people and environmental devastation. Yet governments and companies of the West provided assistance that allowed the controversial project to proceed. “In the midst of a domestic political crisis, the Canadian government...