Sustainability Thought and Deed: Climate and political dysfunction from the NYT

A article and an op-ed. Enjoy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/science/earth/arctic-sea-ice-eyed-for-clues-to-weather-extremes.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1333015545-dFXyus6k4Lu9GI3OhZMI8A

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/opinion/friedman-elephants-down-under.html?src=me&ref=general

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As the 21st century enters its second decade, human population growth, and growth in the physical scale of the human economic endeavor on planet Earth continue apace. There are four primary questions that result: 1) How long can this growth continue before vital ecological life-support systems are damaged beyond repair? 2) How might that repair begin? 3) How can we trammel growth without also trammeling democracy and human freedom? 4) What are the institutions of a free and sustainable human world, and what is the training required to participate?

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Climate and political dysfunction from the NYT

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