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[RealClearPolitics - Homepage] Washington gets all excited when someone commits an embarrassing or impolitic gaffe. Beyond the Beltway, people cannot understand why our leaders can't be similarly focused and energetic about the most tragic spasm of economic dislocation in eight decades.

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[Bloggingheads.tv] Bloggingheads.tv - Free Will: The Grow-the-Economy Fan Club: Growth first of all needs to be specified to be growth in per capita GNP so thinning out the population while keeping output steady counts as growth in my book. Follow that to it's conclusion and you're left with one guy (or girl) producing everything that is produced today for 6.5 billion or so people.

[Energy Bulletin -] Economic superstitions | Energy Bulletin: The Japanese country folk who consider foxes the messengers of Inari the rice god, and put out offerings of fried tofu to attract them, are mixing agricultural ecology with folk religion in exactly the same way.

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[The Becker-Posner Blog] The Becker-Posner Blog: The Economics of the Iraq War--BECKER: Meanwhile, other neoconservatives were at work within the corridors of power.  We do not have the full story yet, but scholars like Lewis and Fouad Ajami of John Hopkins University reportedly played key roles in convincing Vice President Chney to favor the war.161  Cheney’s views were also heavily influenced by the neoconservatives on his staff, especially Eric Edelman, John Hannah, and chief of staff Libby, one of the most powerful individuals in the Administration.162  The Vice President’s influence helped convince President Bush by early 2002.  With Bush and Cheney on board, the die for war was cast."

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[Everyone's Blog Posts - A Climate For Change] The Bridge At The Edge Of The World - A Climate For Change: Half the world's tropical and temperate forests are now gone.[2] The rate of deforestation in the tropics continues at about an acre a second.[3] About half the wetlands and a third of the mangroves are gone.[4] An estimated 90 percent of the large predator fish are gone, and 75 percent of marine fisheries are now overfished or fished to capacity.[5] Twenty percent of the corals are gone, and another 20 percent severely threatened.[6] Species are disappearing at rates about a thousand times faster than normal.[7] The planet has not seen such a spasm of extinction in sixty-five million years, since the dinosaurs disappeared.[8] Over half the agricultural land in drier regions suffers from some degree of deterioration and desertification.[9] Persistent toxic chemicals can now be found by the dozens in essentially each and every one of us.[10]

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