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Nano-Risks: A Big Need for a Little Testing
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The EPA must act swiftly to evaluate the possible health risks of nanotechnology
A decade ago the great worry about nanotechnology was that it could quite literally destroy the planet. As Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy warned in his essay “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” self-assembling nanobots could potentially spread out of our [...]
Off to the Races
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I’ve long believed there are two basic strategies for dealing with climate change — the “Earth Day” strategy and the “Earth Race” strategy. This Copenhagen climate summit was based on the Earth Day strategy. It was not very impressive. This conference produced a series of limited, conditional, messy compromises, which [...]
An Affordable Truth
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PAUL KRUGMAN – NY Times
Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m feeling optimistic about the climate talks starting in Copenhagen on Monday. President Obama now plans to address the conference on its last day, which suggests that the White House expects real progress. It’s also encouraging to see developing countries — [...]
An Inconvenient Solution
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was one of the high points not only of the environmental movement but also of the documentary tradition in America. He figured out how to use a new medium, PowerPoint, to take the unavoidably wonkish story of global warming and make it scary, credible and [...]
How Women Can Save the Planet
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Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise
At six billion plus today, the earth’s human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates. If this many people consume energy at the current rate [...]
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