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Countries on every corner of this Earth now recognize that energy supplies are growing scarcer, energy demands are growing larger, and rising energy use imperils the planet we will leave to future generations. And that's why the world is now engaged in a peaceful competition to determine the technologies that will power the 21st century. From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy. The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy. I am convinced of that. And I want...
Countries on every corner of this Earth now recognize that energy supplies are growing scarcer, energy demands are growing larger, and rising energy use imperils the planet we will leave to future generations. And that's why the world is now engaged in a peaceful competition to determine the technologies that will power the 21st century. From China to India, from Japan to Germany, nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to producing and use energy. The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy. I am convinced of that. And I want...
...world leaders and press them on climate change. Meanwhile the International Air Transport Association reiterated a pledge to cut its own carbon emissions in half by 2050 over 2005 levels. For airlines, like other businesses, the realities of climate change can't be ignored - a world where resources are scarcer and temperatures are rising will demand other ways of doing business, or companies will go out of business. "We all should realize that carbon has a cost," says Jeffrey Swartz, CEO of the shoe company Timberland...
...Dairy farmers say they have yet to feel the effects of the E.U.'s market intervention. They have called on the E.U. to immediately abandon its plans to scrap the milk quotas and implement new, more stringent production curbs to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive. (See pictures of urban goat-breeding...
...women who had given up their jobs to be stay-at-home moms and they all sort of glared at you when you didn't do your share at the PTA. Now as we're going into this recession, it's all going to come back. As jobs become scarcer, women are going to bear the brunt of it. I do think that one of the great lessons that I learned from my mother was not just the necessity of working, but that being able to work is a privilege for all of us. It's where...