[MCN] Urbanization booming, rural America in decline: One nation, divisible

[Lance Olsen]

Wall Street Journal. May 26 2017

IN DEPTH 
ONE NATION, DIVISIBLE
Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’
A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America’s most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that’s accelerating
By Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg
Behind paywall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-america-is-the-new-inner-city-1495817008 <https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-america-is-the-new-inner-city-1495817008>
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“On our present course, humankind will add more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere 
in the next 25 years than our forebears did during the past 125 years.”

“The most painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be to ignore it until 
something happens that elicits powerful public demands for immediate and Draconian action.”
 
Jonathan Lash. “As the earth heats up. “  
Journal of Commerce, August 16, 1996.
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“Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state 
to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that 
the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a 
planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence."

Barnovsky et al. Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere. Nature Volume 486, 07 June 2012

doi:10.1038/nature11018


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