Economy at risk if failure in Copenhagen - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Global consensus over how best to tackle climate change is unlikely if rich countries insist on developing countries to accept long term emissions targets, warns World Bank professor.

Wind energy investments approved by U.S. House | Markets | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved an energy research program on Wednesday that envisions spending $1 billion over the next five years to expand generation of wind power.
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Representative Paul Tonko, a New York Democrat who pushed the bill, said it would provide "the necessary investment to help private industry perfect wind energy and bring those advances in technology and cost savings to market."

Human colony on Mars 'will make the world a better place' - Telegraph

Teach children to type rather than write, accept that mankind has lost the battle to halt global warming, and establish a colony on Mars for when Earth becomes uninhabitable.
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These are just some of the ideas proposed by a panel of eminent scientists and intellectuals asked to come up with ways of making the world a better place.

Their suggestions paint a bleak picture of humanity's current plight on a planet cursed by environmental destruction, unequal health care and the money-orientated selfishness of the Western world.