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Tipping Point? Who’s Sleeping Now?
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Can you hear me now?
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
C. H. Tung, the first Chinese-appointed chief executive of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, offered me a three-sentence summary the other day of China’s modern economic history: “China was asleep during the Industrial Revolution. She was just waking during the Information Technology Revolution. She intends [...]
Can We Feed and Save the Planet?
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Challenges of population control and food production need to be tackled in tandem
We are eating ourselves out of house and home. Recently, in the September 24 issue of Nature, Johan Rockström and his colleagues proposed 10 “planetary boundaries” to define safe limits of human activity. (Scientific American is part of the [...]
Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?
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Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary staples, fluctuate violently on the world market [...]
The Environmental Revival
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Which modern enviro concepts are throwbacks to the past? Four experts discuss the technologies, laws, and states of mind that have their roots in the first wave of the environmental movement.
Imagine a city where the main boulevard has been converted to a greenway, replete with thousands of trees, birdsong, and even a creek. [...]
Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet
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When the first Earth Day took place in 1970, American environmentalists had good reason to feel guilty. The nation’s affluence and advanced technology seemed so obviously bad for the planet that they were featured in a famous equation developed by the ecologist Paul Ehrlich and the physicist John P. Holdren, who is now [...]
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