Word: footprints
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Though it's caricatured as a concrete jungle, New York is already surprisingly eco-friendly. Thanks to its density and public transit, the city has a per capita carbon footprint 71% smaller than the U.S. as a whole. With more than 8.2 million people calling New York home, surpassing a historical high set in the 1950s, the city's infrastructure - its crowded subways, traffic-choked streets, aging water mains - is being pushed past its limits. City planners realize that New York is on track to gain an additional 900,000 people by 2030. If that growth isn't managed properly...
...must start spending again, and we will. But we've all known people who, having survived the 1930s, never lost their Depression habits of frugality. And so it will be again. We don't need to turn ourselves into tedious, zero-body-fat, zero-carbon-footprint ascetics, but even after the economy recovers, deciding to forgo that third car or fifth TV or imperial master bathroom or marginally cooler laptop will come more naturally...
...Gates did say he's sure of one thing: He doesn't want to keep boosting U.S. and allied troop numbers there. "I've been very concerned about an open-ended commitment of increasing numbers of troops for a variety of reasons," he said, "including the size of our footprint in Afghanistan and my worry that the Afghans come to see us as not their partners and allies but as part of their problem." (See pictures of Afghanistan's mean streets...
...while Gates may want to limit the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan, the math is working against him, at least in the short term. The additional 17,000 American troops slated to arrive there this year will boost the U.S. force there to about 55,000 troops, even as contingents from Canada and the Netherlands withdraw, giving Washington an even bigger stake in the fighting...
...nobody really thought years ago that that would be a successful pro soccer market. It's got 16,000 season tickets on a waiting list and sells out every game. We need to go where the fans are and continue to think about how we create a geographic footprint that makes sense...