We are at a crossroads: to talk about tolerance but insist upon conformity, to support diversity yet insist on the westernization of the world though globalization. With so many competing interests, how do we move forward?
Tag: nature
What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order
We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.
GreenSmart vs. GreenDumb
If you assume that replacing books, magazines and newspapers with Kindle and the Internet are eco-friendly tradeoffs, think again. Carbon footprints don't tell all.