Here’s an interesting fact, courtesy of James Kunstler’s blog:

The US has over 20 square feet of retail space per person.
Sweden has 3.3 square feet.
The UK? 2.5.
Those shopping-crazed French and Italians? 2.3 and 1.1, respectively.
That’s right–we’ve got over ten times the space–and we’re building it as fast as we can.
Everywhere.
No end in sight, really.
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You don’t have to look far these days for interesting news of environmental change.
For example: human-induced climate change might be moving the Earth towards a more Dune-like future.
Complexity. What’s going on is, in a nutshell, beyond our comprehension. We can’t draw it in a diagram or program its analysis adequately enough to understand it […]

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