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The Deep Six
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Donella H. Meadows |
12 Oct 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Months ago, the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the human population meter would soon click over another billion. They picked an arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of 6 Billion. What kind of event should this be? A day of repentance? A celebration? In a world of soundbites, what's the right tone here? Six billion, oh woe? Six billion, yippee? Six billion. But who's counting? My guess is that " ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, logging, marine life, population (all these topics) |
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