Red Light-Green Light: Addiction, The Economy, And Environmentalism, Part II

Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by spencer in Environment, Politics

[The following, written by Synthesis weekly columnist Julia Murphy, appeared in the Synthesis Weekly on Monday, June 2nd, 2008. Julia can be reached at ninjatreehugger@gmail.com.]
Addiction, The Economy, And Environmentalism, Part II

From the Secretary General of the United Nations on World Environment Day of this year:
“Addiction is a terrible thing. It consumes and controls us, makes us deny important truths and blinds us to the consequences of our actions. Our world is in the grip of a dangerous carbon habit.”
How does this “addiction” manifest in our population?
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