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	<title>Eco-Compass &#187; PaulEhrlich</title>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: Fireflies, Chrysler, and Auto Bailout</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/279/paul-ehrlich-fireflies-chrysler-and-bush%e2%80%99s-final-days</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horrible-and we thought it couldn&#8217;t get worse when we were in southern Africa six months ago&#8230;&#8230;Paul Ehrlich

December 12, 2008: &#8220;A new ordeal bleeds Zimbabwe&#8221; By Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times
Cholera swept through the five youngest children in the Chigudu family with cruel and bewildering haste. On a recent Saturday, they chased one another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #7</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/227/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the seventh and final step we should take to reach a sustainable society (click here for step one, step two, step three, step four, step five, and step six).
Seven: Determine the institutions and arrangements best suited to govern a planetary  society with a maximum of freedom within the constraints of sustainability.
This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #6</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/213/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-6</link>
		<comments>http://blog.islandpress.org/213/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-6#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the sixth step we should take to reach a sustainable society (click here for step one, step two, step three, step four, and step five).
Six: Decide what kind of world we all want.
What are the ultimate goals of our lives?  Are Americans really happier traveling to work an hour or more each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #5</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/211/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-5</link>
		<comments>http://blog.islandpress.org/211/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the fifth step we should take to reach a sustainable society (click here for step one, step two, step three, and step four).
Five: Rapidly expand our empathy. 
We&#8217;re a small-group animal, trying to live in large groups.  Although we no longer can associate exclusively with a clan &#8220;family&#8221; of, say, 125 relatives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #4</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/197/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the fourth step we should take to reach a sustainable society (click here for step one, step two, and step three).
Four: Judge technologies not just on what they do for people but also to people and their life-support systems.
A novel synthetic chemical added to the plastic in a sports bottle may increase its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #3</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/193/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the third step we should take to reach a sustainable society (click here for step one and step two).
Three: Transform the consumption of education. 
Education is what economists call a &#8220;non-rival good&#8221; - something that can be consumed without reducing the amount available to others-and as such it is an ideal consumption good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/183/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the second step we should take toward a sustainable society (Click here for step one).
Two: Put conserving on a par with consuming.
At any given level of technology, there is a trade-off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita physical affluence that can be sustainably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: 7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #1</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/177/paul-ehrlich-7-steps-toward-a-sustainable-society-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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A central problem of the human predicament discussed in The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment is that we&#8217;re small-group animals trying to live in ever more gigantic groups - and not doing very well at it.  If catastrophe can be avoided, we&#8217;re stuck with gigantic groups for a century or more, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of the World According to Paul Ehrlich</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/149/paul-ehrlichs-state-of-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulEhrlich</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich delivered a seminar to the Long Now Foundation a few weeks ago, and you can watch it here. Ehrlich offers an overview of the &#8220;state of the world&#8221; from the point of view of an ecologist/biologist.

Ehrlich is the co-author of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.
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		<title>Paul Ehrlich: Doom-mongering</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/135/paul-ehrlich-doom-mongering</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Well, I&#8217;m a &#8220;doom-monger&#8221; - that&#8217;s the opinion of Mary Eberstadt, conservative Catholic pundit based at Stanford&#8217;s neighbor, a frequently-thoughtless tank, the Hoover Institution. The news came to me this week from the editors of First Things, a journal dedicated to advancing &#8220;a religiously-informed public philosophy for the ordering of society&#8221; - translation, turning [...]]]></description>
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