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The fairness of giving every person on earth an equal share of the atmosphere's capacity to absorb our greenhouse gas emissions is difficult to deny.
Why should anyone have a greater entitlement than others to use the earth's atmosphere?
Our people will be unable to live on thousands of acres of contaminated earth for hundreds of years.
Nations could set the more ambitious goal of limiting the long-term change in the earth's temperature, and then assign emissions rights among countries in such a way that will eventually limit temperature increases to an acceptable level.
At the political level, the UN is the meeting place for 193 member states to negotiate and create international law, as in the important treaty on climate change adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
Politicians have failed to implement properly the treaties adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit.
Recently, the United States achieved the dubious honor of boasting the largest prison and jail population on earth.
Global use of fossil fuels is contributing to a sharp rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is causing the Earth to warm.
Yet, in assessing the Japanese experience and its relevance today, it is important to recognize that Japan's fall to earth was due not only to its financial crisis.
The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.
The cleverest, most literally earth-shattering notions of physics for two generations came not from the expected powerhouses of the day, but from Budapest.
The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater.
With so much at stake, it makes sense to place sentinels near every swamp, city, public market, and farmyard on earth.
Since 1900 the global temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and ocean surface waters has risen by 0.5-1 degree Celsius, and the prime suspect is atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2, which is second only to water vapor in its greenhouse effect.
If the couple sizzled for cameras with Luxor and Petra as the backdrop, just imagine how hot things could get at the most romantic spot on Earth, the Taj Mahal.
Neither event is earth shattering, but, taken together, these two steps mean that a new system of international justice is working.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and one of the poorest - 1.5 million of us live on a patch of land about 41 kilometers long and 6-12 kilometers wide.
Quite apart from daily sunlight, for instance, Earth is bombarded by all sorts of other radiation from outside our solar system.
An even more mysterious effect occurs on Earth with living creatures.
The fairness of giving every person on earth an equal share of the atmosphere's capacity to absorb our greenhouse gas emissions is difficult to deny. Why should anyone have a greater entitlement than others to use the earth's atmosphere?
After more than three decades of breakneck economic growth, it has transformed itself from one of the poorest countries on earth to the world's largest economy.
The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth.
In a revolutionary atmosphere of solidarity and self-sacrifice, people tend to think that when their victory is complete, paradise on Earth is inevitable.