UNDER OLD EARTH by CORDWAINER SMITH Down into Old Earth the Lord hastened —to do one great last deed, and die! I need a temporary dog For a temporary fob On a temporary place     like Earth! —Song from The Merchant of Menace I There were the Douglas-Ouyang planets, which circled their sun in a single cluster, riding around and around the same orbit unlike any other planets known. There were the gentlemen-suicides back on Earth, who gambled their lives—even more horribly, gambled sometimes for things worse than their lives—against different kinds of geophysics which real men had never experienced. There were girls who fell in love with such men, however stark and dreadful their personal fates might be. There was the Instrumentality, with its unceasing labor to keep man man. And there were the citizens who walked in the boulevards before the Rediscovery of Man. The citizens were happy. They had to be happy. If ...

Freedom and saving the Environment from climate change..hmmm...I was walking by a vast piece of open land that's now under development. A once natural countryside, teaming with all the biodiversity my eye's used to fervently admire - wildlife, mighty healthy Trees, all types of wildflowers. flora and fauna, insects, it must've been that way since time began know doubt, well i'm no geographer but anyways, as I approached a giant Sign on the perimeter of this development site, it stated, ''We are pleased to inform the local area that 20 green energy Homes are being constructed to help save the Environment''...I actually started laughing at the Hypocrisy this sign was promoting. the countryside was gone..raised to the ground... I thought to myself, '' They have to now destroy the environment to save it?'' kind of says it all really, we create the crisis, and then Shout, Climate Change !, we need to go green ! we can’t save the climate by de...