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Global Emergency — ecological unsustainability

by Ervin Laszlo February 23, 2010

Emergency is an unstable and ultimately unsustainable condition in a system that calls for effective action to avert breakdown. A global emergency means that the human and natural systems of the planet have become unstable and unsustainable, and that globally coordinate action is required if the global system is not to crash. Global emergency involves both [...]

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The already forgotten lesson of Haiti

by Ervin Laszlo February 6, 2010

On this paradisiacal but politically and economically depressed island of the Caribbean an almost unprecedented human catastrophe has happened before our very eyes. When the earth shook, hundreds of thousands were stricken, more than two hundred thousand have perished, and nobody knows just how many were left without a roof over their head. Now that [...]

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