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color="#000000">"Collectively, the results foreshadow
twenty-first-century changes in forest Š towards distributions
unfamiliar to modern civilization."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Park Williams et
al.<b> Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought
stress and tree mortality.</b><br>
<i>Nature Climate Change</i>. PUBLISHED ONLINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2012 |
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1693</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"We have only one
planet and the time has come to transform our present lifestyle and
consumption patterns in order to halt the degradation of the Earth's
natural capital ..."<br>
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From the Executive Summary, WWF: <i> China Ecological Footprint:
Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and
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</font><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Š energy
consumption in 1960 was about half what it is now [i.e., 1970] Š.
Surely we had a civilized country then, with roads, electricity,
entertainment, and so on. Š. Have we, by doubling our energy
consumption, doubled our happiness?"<br>
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Kimon Valaskakis, Peter S. Sindell, J. Graham Smith, and Iris
Fitzpatrick-Martin.<i> The Conserver Society.</i> 1970. Harper &
Row.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"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."<br>
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Jonathan Lash. "As the earth heats up. " <i> Journal of
Commerce</i> August 16, 1996.</font><br>
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