As David Owen writes in The New Yorker, “One beneficial consequence of the ongoing global economic crisis is that it has put a little time back on the carbon clock.” (The full article is here.)
While true, it points to an unsettling underlining truth that advances in ecological terms are not yet a goal of today’s economic developments. When can we best afford to invest in green technologies? In times of prosperity where funds are available or in times like these, where hardship forces us to reinvent the economy with tax dollars? There is no easy answer.
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