... What is the evidence for this? How does improving health, reducing extreme poverty, and improving high school education (below) "encourage even more rapid

You remember the sequence, don't you, Tom? - first they ignore you - then they say you're full of shit - then they say they knew it all along ... to drive ...

Denis, Sorry, I have over-quoted you, so to speak, my apologies. I suppose I have done this because I have viewed your thesis as a subset of the Club of Rome's

Frank You quote the generally accepted definition of sustainable development  

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On Fri Jan 2, 2009 at 9:41 am (PST) "Dell Erickson" ricks@... wrote: "That is hurling invective at those supporting sovereign nations and rights of

It is very good to ask for "human justice" in the Middle East, liek Baremboin did in Vienna; much better than, and a sine qua non step to ask later for "peace

PEAK CAPITALISM: Capitalism died on, or about, 2007 (production fell with prices climbing!) Oil prices roses in 2007 with Brent gaining $7 a barrel (11%) to

Tom W., I too like long sentences, despite being warned off them at school, and during my dissertation writing stage, but old urges run deep, so I will end