Diamonds have been discovered on Mars. After years of neglect to space programs around the world, a ruthless corporation has made it to the Red Planet first, establishing their own mining operation with its own rules and laws, its own class system, and little oversight from Earth.
The very large number of preparatively useful reactions of organic chemistry can be classified systematically and clearly by using the common characteristic of all organic compounds, namely, the carbon skeleton.
Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives)
"We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die." -James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia
Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope — or Worst Nightmare — for Averting Climate Catastrophe
At one time a fringe notion, the idea of geoengineering—using radical means to change the climate deliberately—is gaining traction in scientific conferences and even in the White House, where doubts are growing regarding the efficacy of mainstream strategies (conservation, alternative energy, "storing carbon dioxide from coal plants in the ground").
