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...Planet of the Apes...
...Basically what we?re seeing is a sort of evolutionary backlash. Humans today are programmed to resist famine, because over time, the only people who survived and propagated are those who are well-equipped to survive famine. But today most of the planet doesn?t face famine; it only exists in certain pockets of the world. For those of us not living in famine-prone areas, an overabundance of food has become more dangerous than a lack of it. We have no protection against excess food intake, and as food has become more available and less expensive all over...
...return address, but that didn?t matter in the Cold War calculation - ICBM?s were there to maintain a balance of terror, in which each side knew that annihilation was the price of attacking the other with nuclear weapons. That certainty, ironically, helped keep the peace throughout the planet, with the two superpowers inclined to modulate their regional conflicts to prevent them spinning out of control and forcing a grand showdown...
...actually persuade the faithful to stop their plundering and buy electricity from nonpolluting sources? In this way, they could ease their conscience and help limit the damage done by fossil-fuel-powered plants, which produce about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, the gas most responsible for raising the planet's temperature...
Green Mountain remains the most dedicated national player. The total output of U.S. renewables is 16,500 MW, about 2% of the total U.S. grid. "Until the demand for green energy increases, you're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Adam Markham of Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit in Portsmouth...