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POPSSustainable Economy: Five Policy Recommendations -- To serve the purposes of ending poverty and conserving the biosphere (sustainable development) we must first rescue the idea of purpose itself from the nether world of illusion and epiphenomena to which it has been banished by mechanist philosophers and neodarwinist biologists. If purpose is not causative in the real world then all policy is nonsense, and all theory on which policy is based is useless. This last quote is quite important and its conceptualization fundamental in the creation of a new non-Newtonian philosophy of systems dynamics and irreductionism. But the author doe not sell me on point number 4.
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POPS Desakota A new term to describe the new urbanization as seen in Asia (largely China).
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POPSPoll: Most Americans Support NSA's Efforts Though I understand the general belief that some domestic surveillance is needed to protect the country there need to be very stringent, independent, legal methods for doing so. Not the extra legal, neo-soviet, domestic spy program of this administration. To this day we don’t even know whom they spied on. Did they spy on the Kerry campaign? Sadly, no one who knows the slightest bit about this administration could deny that possibility. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
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POPSEarth is now on a fast track to global warming We short circuited the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels. That said, we may also be able to short circuit the carbon cycle with engineered solutions to the problem. In other words, there is hope here.
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