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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences</i>. January 12, 2010.<br>
Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their
conservation value.<br>
Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart et al.<br>
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Š housing growth poses the main threat to protected areas in
the United States whereas deforestation is the main threat in
developing countries."<br>
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"Wilderness areas enjoy the highest level of protection, but that
does not limit development in their surroundings. In 2000, 20.5
million housing units were within 50 km of a designated wilderness
area (18% of all housing units in the conterminous United States),
compared with only 4.4 million (12%) in 1940 (Fig. 1). Wilderness
areas also exhibited the highest housing growth rates in their
immediate vicinity (Fig. 2). The number of housing units within 1 km
of a wilderness area grew from 9,400 in 1940 to 54,000 in 2000 (474%
growth)."<br>
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"If long-term trends continue, another 17 million housing units
will be built within 50 km of protected areas by 2030 (1 million
within 1 km), greatly diminishing their conservation value. US
protected areas are increasingly isolated, housing development in
their surroundings is decreasing their effective size Š
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"Real estate speculation must be as old as the land -- in the
United States, it is certainly as old as the frontier -- and the
first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening
of the first bank."<br>
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"Still, the boom of the 1980s was unique. Not only did creditors
lend more freely than they had in the past, but the government
intervened more actively than it had ever done before to absorb the
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James Grant.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><i>Money
of the Mind : Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to
Michael Milken</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000">. Introduction, p.5.<br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Climate
scientist James Hansen has suggested that 350 ppm was the
concentration beyond which it was unsafe to go."
"Unquestionably we are beyond where we should be."<br>
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Thomas E. Lovejoy, Tim Flannery and Achim Steiner<br>
<i>International Herald Tribune<br>
</i>Monday, October 27, 2008</font></div>
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"The tendency for success to breed complacency and recklessness is
as ingrained in financial markets as it is in any other walk of
life."<br>
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"Banks: Barbarians at the vault."<br>
<i>The Economist</i>, May 15, 2008</font></div>
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is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite
responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets
himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself, on
this earth."<br>
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"The atmospheric
engine is subtle in it operation and delicate in its adjustments.
Extra inputs of energy Š can have significant and far-reaching
consequences."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">Singer, Fred S.
"Human Energy Production as a process in the biosphere,"<i>
Scientific American</i>, September 1970.<br>
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