Fact file: Americans drive the most
Americans drive a whole lot more than most other people in the world. That means more noise, more pollution and more deaths. Maybe it's time to rethink how we get around.
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The task at hand is not to “go back” to life in the 1960s or 1970s. The challenge, rather, is to envision a lifestyle and economy that lives within material and energy constraints similar to what my grandparents might have experienced, but can still be, in important ways, better.
Defusing a “rigged to blow” economy: Rebuilding resilience in a suddenly fragile world
The current crisis calls upon us to build more resilience into our economy and our society; to build new structures so that even if a tightly coupled, highly complex global financial system does blow up, it won’t take all of us with it.
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We’re surrounded by advertising. Every day, we see billboards, TV ads, advertisements in magazines, and corporate sponsors at all sorts of events. Much of the time we don’t notice these ads, much less think about how they shape our desires and encourage us to want things we otherwise wouldn’t want.
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Tony
Dutzik
Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group
Cross
R.J.
Cross
Policy Analyst, Frontier Group