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• Three models of social change 6

  Posted 3 days, 22 hours agoCan we change fast enough? When thinking about the enormous need for social change as we attempt to move the world economy onto a sustainable path, Lester Brown finds it useful to look at various models of change.

• By the numbers -- data highlights on poverty and population 1

  Posted 1 week, 3 days agoIn Chapter 7 of the recently released [em]Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization[/em], Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population.

• The rising tide of environmental refugees 2

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoOur early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking.

• U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions 4

  Posted 3 weeks, 4 days agoFor years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

• PONZICONOMY

  Our global pyramid scheme 3

  Posted 1 month agoToday's mismanaged world economy is like a giant global illusion. If we keep overpumping, overgrazing, overplowing, overfishing, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, how long before our pumped up Ponzi-conomy unravels and collapses?

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