Because we're stubborn

From time immemorial, we've wanted to have our cake and eat it too. When oil crisis in the 1970's shut mills down in Pittsburgh, some of the smoke cleared and many more stars appeared in a sky of deeper blue...
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"...there is hope in the opportunity to build something different. Just as mammals only inherited the Earth after the dinosaurs were smacked by an extra-terrestrial rock, a sustainable economy might only compete when the old beast no longer roars...given that our world economy is built on consuming land, resources, water and air, a recession helps the Earth..."
~Tom Heap
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