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Wealthy nations can adapt to the changing environment.
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DrumBeat: January 5, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... dirt here is laced with lead left over from years of extracting it from old car batteries. So when the price of lead quadrupled over five years, residents started digging up the earth to get at it. The World Health Organization says the area is still severely contaminated, 10 months after a government cleanup.
The tragedy of Thiaroye Sur Mer gives a glimpse at how the globalization of a modern tool — the car battery — can wreak havoc in the developing world.
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On Al Gore, Crises, and Sustainability
the green skeptic™ —
... professor of Chinese language and literature, and which I've written about elsewhere on this blog. But he has a point when it comes to the long view. How can we expect economies, companies, or people in general to embrace sustainability when they are expected to think only of the next week, the next quarter, even the next year rather than in the lifetime of a business-cycle or a generation? Related articles by Zemanta Sorry, Climate Change Wouldn't Hurt America's Economy Can cities save the planet? ...
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