Word: globalization
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...will. For France, the matter is academic. It does not have the ability to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars though the world's credit markets. Even if it is philosophically opposed to a large deficit, it is poorly equipped to create one through borrowing. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...rotten time to be a banker. Whether their fingerprints are on a single credit default swap or collateralized debt obligation or not, financiers are being fingered for blowing up the global economy. The assets they traded are "toxic" and their bonuses "obscene." And members of the public, it seems, are fed up with the lot of them. In a leaked security memo sent to staff last week, bosses at AIG warned workers to keep an eye out for aggressors amid the "growing sense of public attention fueled by increased media scrutiny." AIG employees were advised to ditch AIG apparel...
When it comes to climate change, however, that picture hasn't yet been found. Hurricane Katrina's destruction, drowning polar bears, spreading deserts - these images are powerful in their own right, but they're not the sorts of pictures that can drive a movement. Precisely because global warming is so, well, global, potentially touching just about every corner of the world and every aspect of our lives, encapsulating it in a single image has proven elusive. You can't connect climate change to a natural disaster as simply as you can connect a napalm bomb, a running child...
...State Building in New York and even the Strip in Las Vegas - all will go dark for an hour to raise awareness of climate change and show that there is a worldwide constituency out there eager for action. "This is the only event regarding climate change that is truly global," says Carter Roberts, the president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the U.S., which is coordinating the event. "Climate change is the most global of problems, and the global community needs to come together to solve it." (Read "Earth Hour '08: Did It Matter...
...Global warming may never get its perfect picture - Earth Hour, a globe gone dark, may be the closest thing we'll have. That's all right - at a time when a recent Gallup poll reports that a record-high 41% of Americans think global warming is exaggerated, green groups need to do everything they can to keep this issue on the front burner, here and in the rest of the world. "The take home message from Earth Hour should be that we are not alone," says Roberts. "I want people to go to the website, but after, I want them...