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Tuesday, May 6, 2003

on a klog apart: looking at the depopulation of Europe and Japan, and The Effects of Global Aging on the Global Workforce.

[And one on MegaVote, an elected officials tracking service.]
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"As an entry in any intergalactic design competition, Industrial Civilization would be thrown out at the qualifying round."
-- David Orr, Earth in Mind

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

It's ALL about design.
-- Gil Friend
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[Alternet]: The federal government -- with Republicans in control of the White House, Congress and the judiciary -- has launched the largest rollback of environmental laws and regulations ever.

The reasons: oil, and fundamentalism.

Nevertheless, beyond all these more obvious anti-environmental motivations there lies a more deep-seated inspiration....

Marty Jezer, writing for the online Common Dreams News Center, notes that "One has to go back to the Stalinist Era of the Soviet Union to find such a display of political arrogance and ignorance of science."
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