Mother Nature’s Dow
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: While Im convinced that our current financial crisis is the product of both The Market and Mother Nature hitting the wall at once telling us we need to grow in more sustainable ways some might ask this: We know when the market hits a wall. It shows up in red numbers on the Dow. But Mother Nature doesn’t have a Dow. What makes you think shes hitting a wall, too? And even if she is: Who cares? When my 401(k) is collapsing, its hard to worry about my sea level rising. Its true, Mother Nature doesn’t tell us with one simple number how shes feeling. But if you follow climate science, what has been striking is how insistently some of the worlds best scientists have been warning in just the past few months that climate change is happening faster and will bring bigger changes quicker than we anticipated just a few years ago. Indeed, if Mother Nature had a Dow, you could say that it, too, has been breaking into new (scientific) lows.
- Posted on March 29, 2009 in economy, Sustainability, Uncategorized |
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