Woe, Woe Are We!

How depressing it must be to be an environmentalist. Threats and worries abound, there is no peace! Here's a scan of headlines from today's list of lead articles at the Society of Environmental Journalists:

• U.S. Population To Hit 300 Million -- What's the Environmental Burden?
  
  
• Parents Agonize at Bedside over Spinach -- and Wonder What Food Is Safe
  
  
• Nanotechnology Presents Unknown Risks
  
  
• Environment Canada Predicting a Mild Winter -- So?
  
  
• "High Lead Levels Linked to High Blood Pressure"
  
  
• Blue-Ribbon Panel Says FDA's Drug-Approval System Is Broken and Needs Fixing
  
  
• Federal Flood Insurance Program Swamped with Debt

There are the glass-half-full people and the glass-half-empty people. The world was built by the former and their work was criticized by the latter in a negative drum beat that has sounded through the eons and seems to be reaching new crescendi at the nexus of negative environmentalists and negative journalists.

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