Both touch on timeless mythic themes: destruction and redemption, death and resurrection, mortality and immortality, individual
liberty and
group unity, national sovereignty and
global community, and, of course, scientists playing God and technology run amok.
Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, is set to be deposed today by lawyers for a
group of 21 young plaintiffs, aged 9 to 20, who filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. government failed to protect their rights to life,
liberty, and property by not taking action to halt
global warming.