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Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms.

There is growing recognition in China that they have to make some changes ... though it has not yet publicly taken the form of saying the western economic model is not going to work for us.

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

They?re losing 900 square miles of either grazing land or crop land per year.

Rural communities welcome wind farms because they provide income to farmers and ranchers, skilled jobs, cheap electricity, and additional tax revenue to upgrade schools and maintain roads.

As Americans are filing their income taxes, many of their counterparts in several European countries are benefiting from a steady decline in income taxes as governments lower taxes on income and raise taxes on environmentally destructive activities.

The question facing governments is whether they can respond quickly enough to prevent threats from becoming catastrophes....We need a national political leader to step forward, an environmental Churchill, to rally the world around this effort.

The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate,

Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent. It is fearful that there are still large numbers of people dreaming the 'American dream', hoping to consume like the Americans.

The transition from a world of expanding oil to one of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismic proportions. Oil prices may climb higher than any we can readily imagine.

The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel.

The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the
United States threatens not only the world energy supply, but also the climate,

Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the
earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent,

The transition from a world of expanding oil to one
of shrinking oil will be a shift of seismic proportions. Oil prices may climb
higher than any we can readily imagine,

The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it
at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the
economic system begins to unravel,

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