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 We seek to share with all parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognising that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. -- G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit
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+These ideas tend to be fairly polarizing. People either believe that material wealth is either totally infinite (Flat World) or it’s finite and getting close to being used up (environmentalists). Belief in technology as our savior is proposed as a path that can keep our current way of life but just change the components (electric cars, hydrogen economy, alternative power, etc…). Environmentalists debunk the technology as savior idea by saying it is too little, too late. [...] There is another possibility. At the risk of being called a Pollyanna, I think there may be a path that acknowledges that material resources are limited but also recognizes a powerful role for technology in helping us adapt. The basis for my theory is simple: material resources are limited but ideas are infinite. -- Dave Sohigian in http://blog.sohigian.com/2008/06/11/limited-resources-and-infinite-ideas/
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+Societies have a long record of adapting to the impacts of weather and climate. But climate change poses novel risks often outside the range of experience, such as impacts related to drought, heat waves, accelerated glacier retreat, and hurricane intensity. These impacts will require adaptive responses such as investments in storm protection and water supply infrastructure, as well as community health services. Adaptation measures essential to reduce such vulnerability, are seldom undertaken in response to climate change alone but can be integrated within, for example, water resource management, coastal defence, and risk-reduction strategies. The global community needs to coordinate a far more proactive effort towards implementing adaptation measures in the most vulnerable communities and systems in the world. -- R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
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+Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum
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+  * The Outquisition > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008208.html
+  * Complementary Currency: For Bootstrapping, But Not For Everything > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//003575.html
+  * Resilient Community > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//008178.html
+  * Imagine What Comes After Green > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008207.html
+  * http://variablemedia.net/
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-http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008144.html
+ ... .via the participants
+  * http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008144.html
+  * a website which tracks "eco language" ->  http://www.inpopularterms.net/
+  * Babel (2006) directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
+  * http://www.free-soil.org/
+  * http://www.fw2w.org/
+  * http://proboscis.org.uk/
+  * http://attainable-utopias.org/
+  * gaviotas (columbian project)
+  * http://ZERI.org
+  * Paul Stamets (and researchers after him)
+  * Lynn Margulis (microbiologist)
+  * http://carbonfarm.us/KATALOG/stmt.html
+  * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html