Perspectives
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Pope Francis says ‘Jesus Weeps’ over Piecemeal World War
Inés San Martín
November 19, 2015
As major global powers debate how to take the fight to ISIS in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, Pope Francis on Thursday said that “the whole world is at war,” adding that Jesus weeps “because we have chosen the way of war, the way of hatred.”
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Globally, Religious Persecution is Christian Persecution
John L. Allen Jr.
December 13, 2015
If there were a Nobel Prize for enduring misery, Nabil Soliman would be an awfully compelling candidate.
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The Pitfalls and Pioneers Of Transhumanism
Dominique Nora
August 15, 2015
Remember Gattaca? The superb film describes the contrasting fates of two brothers, one of whom was genetically optimized at birth. A few years later, in another movie, The Island, a community of prisoners discovers one day they are nothing but clones of super-privileged people and that their sole purpose is to provide fresh organs as a guarantee of immortality.
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Climate Apocalypse is Here: Science Fiction has become our New Reality
Michael T. Klare
October 9, 2015
Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science--and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible damage in a fashion and at a speed that had not been anticipated.
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The Great Arctic Thaw Could Unleash Giant Viruses
Emily J. Gertz
September 11, 2015
It’s a scenario straight out of The X-Files: A prehistoric pathogen, isolated for millennia in Arctic ice, comes to light in the modern world.
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A Child Born Today May Live to See Humanity’s End, Unless…
David Auerback
June 18, 2015
Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable, according to Australian microbiologist Frank Fenner, one of the leaders of the effort to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He blames overcrowding, denuded resources and climate change.