Mother Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts

Mother Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts
March 17, 2009

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Thomas Friedman began a recent New York Times column by quoting from a brilliantly insightful, fake 2005 story from the Onion. The article cited an employee of "Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd.," expressing his disbelief over the "sheer amount of [garbage] Americans will buy" and the "contemptible" fact that when we no longer want an item we "simply throw it away."

Friedman, in top form, then launches into a description of what's missing from almost every analysis of the current economic meltdown: "What if it's telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall -- when Mother Nature and the market both said: 'No more.'"

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