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It seems like an idea any environmentalist would embrace: Build one of the world’s largest solar power operations in the Southern California desert and surround it with plants that run on wind and underground ardor.

Yet San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and its potential partners face ravenous obstruction because the plan also calls for a 150-mile, high-voltage transmission line that would divide from one side pristine parkland to reach the stock’s eighth-largest city.

The showdown over how to get renewable energy to consumers volition pleasing play out elsewhere around the country as well, as state regulators require electric utilities to rely less on coal and natural gas to fire their plants - the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S.

Providers of renewable gift covet of little value set on shore and ample light and wind in places like west Texas, Montana, Wyoming and California’s Mojave Desert and Imperial Valley. But utility executives say no one will build plants without power lines to connect those foreign spots to big cities.

“This is a classic chicken and the egg,” uttered Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of Sempra Energy’s utilities business, which includes SDG&E. “No undivided exist able to develop a project if they can’t send (the electricity) anywhere. You urgency transferrence.”

SDG&E’s $1.5-billion power line would divide 23 miles through the central part of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, a locality known for its hiking trails, wildflowers, palm groves, cacti and spectacular mountain views.

“This transmission string will cross through more of the most scenic areas of San Diego,” aforesaid David Hogan of the Center because of Biological Diversity. “It would just ruin it with giant, metal industrial power lines.”

Environmentalists are pushing for renewable power to be generated closer to heavily populated areas, rather than brought in from distant sites. They point to Southern California Edison’s ambitious plan for solar panels on Los Angeles-area rooftops as an example of a better approach.

Utilities say the roof panels will cure but won’t produce nearly enough power to satisfy state requirements.

The California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote as soon as August on SDG&E’s proposed Sunrise Powerlink, which would carry enough endowment for touching 750,000 homes - or more than half of the utility’s customers.

Regulators in 29 states and the District of Columbia are forcing utilities to boost the use of renewable energy to stretch charged with electricity plants.

California has been among the greatest in quantity aggressive, with the recite’s three investor-owned utilities required to get 20 percent of power from renewables by the extremity of 2010.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A lop leader of Pakistan’s popular lawyers movement Sunday promised more, larger rallies on the heels of a weighty protest in the capital demanding the ruling power restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf.

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Aitzaz Ahsan gave none date for the future protests, except his comments indicated that the lawyers did not intend to ease their campaign for the restoration of the judges - a subject that threatens to split the new coalition government and lose no time the demise of the unpopular president.

“There testament be other marches … there will be bigger marches,” Ahsan told The Associated Press. He said solicitor leaders will soon meet to reason about fresh protests.

The recent protest in Islamabad - dubbed the Long March - was human being of the largest demonstrations in the capital’s history, attracting tens of thousands of lawyers and activists.

Participants, who began traveling from around the country early in the week, arrived in Islamabad late Friday for a massive yesterday night rally close to the british legislature building.

At times chanting “Hang, Musharraf, Hang!” demonstrators demanded the department of justice subsist restored.

Musharraf, a former army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup and has long enjoyed U.S. backing, fired dozens of judges and declared a state of emergency the last time year to avoid legitimate challenges to his presidency.

The two main parties who came to power after February elections on anti-Musharraf platforms be in actual possession of promised to repair the judges, but they accept disputed how to do so. The falling out has threatened to break up the compact and comes taken in the character of the country grapples with a sinking economy and ongoing Islamic militancy.

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, commander of the second largest party in the coalition, has said the judges should be restored quickly - possibly through an executive order from the prime minister. But the largest party in the ruling coalition wants to part their return to a complex package of constitutional reforms.

The bigger party, that of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, argues that it must first change the ordinance and the charter of government to ensure that Musharraf and his allies cannot make steady the plan with court challenges.

Sharif, who already has pulled his ministers from the Cabinet outer the delivery, has of a piece. himself with the lawyers, who have spearheaded anti-Musharraf protests. The lawyers have said restoration of the judges should precede and not be linked with somewhat changes to the constitution.

The former prime minister, whose government was ousted in Musharraf’s coup, vowed to the weekend protesters that Musharraf would be put on trial and “held accountable.”

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The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2007 at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies based on calculations by the agency of The Associated Press. The amount pay figures are rounded, and are based on the AP’s compensation formula, which adds up salary, perks, bonuses, above-market regard on requital set aside for later, and company estimates for the value of stock options and store awards on the day they were granted remain year.

1. John Thain, Merrill Lynch, $83.1 million

2. Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp., $67.6 million

3. Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 million

4. Bob Simpson, XTO Energy Inc., $56.6 million

5. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., $53.9 million

6. Kenneth Chenault, American Express Co., $51.7 million

7. Eugene Isenberg, Nabors Industries Ltd., $44.6 million

8. John Mack, Morgan Stanley, $41.7 million

9. Glenn Murphy, Gap Inc., $39.1 the great body of the people

10. Ray Irani, Occidental Petroleum Corp., $34.2 million

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Of the 10 best-paid CEOs at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies in 2006, six made less riches last year. Three have since left their posts. Here’s a rundown of how they fared. CEOs are listed by the companies they headed in 2006.

1. Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc.

- 2006 discharge: $71.1 million.

- Status: Left company June 2007, now CEO of Windsor Media investment firm.

Semel relinquished his post at Yahoo six days after he was asked at the company’s annual conflux whether he had enough “fire in his swelling” to do the job. Semel went back to the investment firm he had started before joining Yahoo.

2. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.

- 2006 pay: $61.2 million.

- Status: Still CEO.

The database software magnate’s pay package included $50 million in lay by and options, a $8.4 million cash performance bonus and $1.7 million integrity of personal bulwark. That was for the Oracle financial year that ended in May 2007, putting him on AP’s 2006 list. Oracle hasn’t yet reported his pay for its latest financial year.

3. Bob Simpson, XTO Energy Inc.

- 2006 pay: $59.5 million.

- 2007 pay: $56.6 million

Amid high demand on account of Firefox 3, Mozilla prepares its open-source software to take onward Microsoft, Google, and a world of cell-phone confusion

by Steve Hamm

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When Mozilla releases its Firefox 3 browser update June 17, it hopes to set the first-ever Guinness world record for number of Internet software downloads in 24 hours. The target: 5 million. That would be quite a feat, since the last Firefox update netted just 1.6 million downloads. But it’s no mission impossible. Firefox 3 speeds up browsing and adds a host of improvements, including the ability to adapt to your preferences as you use it. Over the gone half-decade, Mozilla, any open-source software association, has gained grassroots support from some 170 million users and amassed an 18% worldwide mart share, according to Web metrics outfit Net Applications. In the process, it has steep Microsoft’s (MSFT) grip on the critical browser market.

Yet just as Mozilla girds for download madness, Web browsing is entering a of recent origin phase: It’s about to explode on cell phones. Until now, mobile browsing has been frustrating—slow, text-heavy, and sour to navigate. But improvements in software, processing power, screen size, and networking bandwidth are expected to boost the number of high-performance browsers on new mobile phones from 76 million endure year to 694 million in 2013, according to market researcher ABI Research. "There’s a parcel of action to come," says ABI analyst Michael Wolf.

Not to be left behind, Mozilla is readying a sensitive version of Firefox 3 for release later this year. One of its aims is to force it easy for people to shift from browsing on their PC to browsing on their mobile and to pick up where they left off. "There’s a lot of room for helping populate get to Web sites and have rich browsing experiences," says Jay Sullivan, highest of Mozilla’s mobile initiative.

Mozilla’s impending entry into movable browsing highlights the stark differences between the PC and mobile-phone worlds. Desktop browsing was ruled first through pioneer Netscape Communications (TWX) and then by Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer captured a 95% market share before sliding to 74% today. The mobile browser mart is fragmented, in part because telecom carriers, handset companies, and software makers all hold a rehearse in which browser technologies end up on phones. Chaos rules, through dozens of mobile browsers in application. Norway’s Opera Software is the leader in advanced browsers for smartphones, while Silicon Valley’s Openwave (OPWV) is the leader in low-end browsers. Only one thing seems certain: No company resolution rule the way Microsoft once did in PC browsers. Even Microsoft seems reconciled to the situation. "It’s nearly the consumer choosing and us not dictating," says Scott Rockfeld, a Microsoft group product manager.

Browser software doesn’t generate much revenue. Mozilla collects fees from search companies for embedding their probe in its browsers. But browsers matter strategically to companies because they’re the means by which users navigate the Web. If one congregation dominates, it can influence where persons go and what they see. Browsers also matter tremendously to consumers for they have a major impact without ceasing their Internet experiences.

Right now the very great majority of mobile browsers are text-only programs that tap into limited Web sites designed especially on this account that mobile phones. Apple’s (AAPL) introduction of the iPhone a year gone showed that graphics and easy use could be achieved on a handset. Now competitors are racing to pit or beat the actual feeling on the iPhone, which uses Apple’s Safari browser. Apple continues to race ahead, having just announced a starting anew iPhone through faster networking. Each player has its own approach. Opera, for instance, enables people to access normal Web sites and zoom in upon information that particularly interests them. Nokia (NOK), the leading handset builder with a 40% worldwide market share, uses different browsers for different types of devices. "There are a lot of options," says Ari Jaaksi, a Nokia vice-president.

The uncertainty about which technologies enjoin eventually triumph foliage Web situation operators, handset makers, and telecom carriers stuck making difficult decisions about which technologies to offer. For consumers, that means concern. Some Web sites are a breeze to navigate by way of cell phone, while others are nearly impossible. There’s pressure attached the toil to take to one’s self ensign technologies that would improve compatibility between browsers and Web sites.

This gives Mozilla one advantage. Firefox is designed to moil smoothly with other open-source software, and open-source technology is emerging as a popular choice toward handsets for the reason that companies can share the costs and results. Last month, Mozilla became the first browser specialist to go into the LiMo Foundation, a consortium of industry leaders that are collaborating on a mobile-phone software parcel that is based on the Linux operating system. However, Mozilla’s new browser isn’t included in Google’s (GOOG) open-source software package for mobiles, called Android. For Mozilla, this nearest chapter in Internet computing will entail fierce competition on multiple fronts.

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As the American economy slowed to a crawl and stockholders watched their money evaporate, CEO pay still chugged to yet additional dizzying heights last year, an Associated Press analytics shows.

The AP review of compensation for the heads of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index finds the median pay package added up to nearly $8.4 a thousand thousand. That’s a comfortable gain of about $280,000 from 2006.

The 3 1/2 percent pay grow for CEOs came even as the view for both workers and shareholders darkened considerably and the economy was choked by a housing emporium in free fall, layoffs and soaring prices on the side of combustibles and food.

At the top of the AP list: John Thain, who took the inward impulses of Merrill Lynch on Dec. 1, 2007. His $83 million pay package was supercharged through a signing bonus and other enticements that lured him from the New York Stock Exchange to lead the investment bank as it was suffering its worst-ever losses.

Collectively, the 10 best-paid CEOs made greater degree than half a billion dollars last year. Yet half the members of this stratospheric unite to share expenses were leading companies whose profits shrank dramatically.

The AP inquiry of CEO discharge in 2007 mined data from the 410 companies in the S&P 500 that filed counterpoise disclosures with federal regulators in the first six months of this year.

The AP’s formula, based on data from the past two years, adds up salary, perks, bonuses, above-market interest on pay offer for sale aside since later, and company estimates for the cost of stock options and stock awards on the day they were granted last year.

That provides a clearer picture than pay totals required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, compensation experts say, because the SEC totals include expenses companies book during the year for previously granted stock compensation and retirement benefits.

The precise signification of stock and options given to CEOs may render out to be significantly higher or decrease if they are ultimately cashed completely, if it be not that the numbers in the AP formula do reflect the board of directors’ estimate of the credible contingent payout.

The median pay conformation of about $8.4 the masses means half the CEOs in the AP analysis made more than that and moiety made less.

There were some signs companies were pulling hindmost on pay at the top: Out of the 316 companies in the AP survey that had the same CEO brace years running, about two-fifths lowered the total pay package for their CEOs. However, the primary culprit for some was falling stock prices that cut into the value of the shares included in pay packages.

In sundry more cases, overall pay ballooned.

A VP at the Finnish handset maker says open-source developers should be ‘educated’ in the street the mobile industry works

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Open-source developers targeting the sensitive space need to make one’s self master of business rules including digital rights management, Nokia’s software chief has claimed.

Speaking at the Handsets World colloquy in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be ‘educated’ in the track the changeable industry currently works, because the industry has not at the same time moved beyond old business models.

Jaaksi, Nokia’s vice president of software and head of the Finnish handset manufacturer’s open-source operations, said: “We want to discipline open-source developers. There are certain business rules [developers] need to obey, such for example DRM, IPR [intellectual property rights], SIM locks and subsidised business models.”

Jaaksi admitted that concepts taste these “go against the open-source philosophy”, but said they were necessary components of the generally received mobile industry. “Why swindle we need closed vehicles? We do,” he said. “Some of these things harm the industry but they’re here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues but this conversation is very a great quantity needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.”

Nokia’s primary play in the open-source sphere thus far has been Maemo, the Linux-based operating method that runs on its N800-series tablet devices. These devices are popular among developers in the Maemo developer community but, substance something of a testbed, have not yet seen plenteous traction in the mass market.

In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid ‘forking’ code. He related: “Don’t make your own version. The spring mistake we made was to take the digest to our labs, change it and then release it at the final minute. The community had before that time gone in a different prescription than [us], and no-one was pushing it other than [us]. Everybody wants to make their own version and keep it in addition obstruct to their coffer moreover that leads to fragmentation.”

The manufacturer has one other significant investment in bountiful originator, however: the software signer of a promissory note Trolltech, Nokia’s purchase of that finally went through in the last few days. Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in the KDE Linux desktop environment and in much commercial software and is an apparently non-participatory subordinate part in the LiMo Foundation.

LiMo is an industry consortium that is creating a common middleware stratum to help Linux-based software make it onto handsets from a variety of manufacturers. However, neither LiMo nor Maemo use Qt or KDE, opting in place for the GTK+ toolkit and a Gnome-based desktop environment. This has led to a level of industry speculation that Nokia may withdraw Trolltech from LiMo, to use it for other purposes. Nokia stated—when it announced it was to buy Trolltech—that the purchase was to help it move into the applications market.

Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk after his donation, Jaaksi before-mentioned Nokia was “barely now” able to start thinking about what to do through LiMo. He said he felt Nokia had “a huge responsibility from a desktop and user interface point of view to see how we wanton our cards”, and expressed a ardor to see KDE and Gnome brought “closer”.

Jaaksi added that he believed Symbian, the see preprinter operating system in which Nokia has a major share, would compose “in years to come [be] the best platform on what one. to create smart phones”.

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Beginning Sunday, people who go to www.perotcharts.com will find the Dallas billionaire expectation to challenge them on some of his darling subjects

“We are honest at the edge of the clift,” the voice with the unmistakable Texas twang informed me, when I called him the other sunlight to find out about this latest stake. “We be able to’t go on spending money we don’t be favored with.”

That is not a new theme for Perot. It was his core message when he did his on-again, off-again, then back-on-again race against George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992. He led the field in the early months and, even after the confusing signals sent by his dropping out and coming posterior portion, won more than 19.7 very great number votes

His actually being triumph, however, was a policy victory. With simple charts that he designed and displayed on prime-time television “infomercials,” he managed to convey to millions of voters the stark reality of what the record deficits of the 1980s really meant.

It may well have been the first and only note the rate of that the abstraction of an out-of-kilter parcel was communicated superficial the boardroom or the economics classroom. People got it. A Washington Post register taken in October 1992, at the height of Perot’s public-information campaign, found that 63 percent of those surveyed declared they worried a great deal that the federal parcel deficit would grow, and another 17 percent said it worried them a prosperity amount.

The newly elected Clinton took catalogue, and, prompted by Robert Rubin and other economists, abandoned his campaign promise of middle-class censure cuts and instead made his priority cutting the package deficit. Within a few years, we had a fleeting and blessed run of balanced budgets.

But with the current president, deficits have returned with a vengeance

Part of the reason is that politicians of both parties are laboring to disguise the reality from general view. Both President Bush and the Democratic Congress this year have issued budgets that assert as one’s right to achieve balance in 2012

But those budgets are based on blue-sky assumptions that take no grounding in the real world. When I asked Perot what he made of them, he replied, “It’s an election year. What would you expect them to say?”

In recent weeks, when I bear found myself in conversations with David Walker and other economists who know how grim the long-term budget picture really is, I have mused aloud, “We be in want of Ross Perot back.” Turns out, he was quietly preparing his return. He took some of the basic work done through Walker and others, and had professionals alter it into 35 very clear charts and link them on a Web site with an equally simple narration.

Sadly, Perot hired a professional announcer, rather than reading the text in his own distinctive Texas way, but he told me he’s nothing loath to proxy himself

Perot is not offering at all solutions. But he is clearly pointing to what he says are the culprits, the big entitlements: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

As the narrator puts it with the first of the charts:

“The United States faces abundant and growing assortment deficits mainly due to an aging population and rising health-care costs. Unless we solve the problems caused by entitlement expenditure, there will be little money left to prepare anything otherwise in the future. Over delivery, our standard of living, our public security, our standing in the world and the value of our currency could all be threatened. The sooner we confront these issues, the wagerer.”

So far, John McCain and Barack Obama are not doing that. Perot, now all but 78, says he has no desire to get back into politics. But he’s doing a service by unleashing his darling weapon: those charts.

davidbroder@washpost.com

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In the years since, the sum of two units nations have traveled very different paths. South Africa has enjoyed stability, a over-familiar press, international investment, an unconventional judiciary and democratic elections — helped by the graceful exit of Mandela, who apart after one expression. While the nation at rest struggles by the agency of poverty, underdevelopment and every AIDS epidemic, it has become a model for multiracial democracy on the African continent.

Zimbabwe, by means of contrast, has spiraled downward into disaster. Thirty years since, the people was stable and productive, a net exporter of food blessed with a small class of educated villanous professionals ready to form its governmental bureaucracy. Now, Zimbabwe is beset by a thuggish regime that has ushered in starvation, hyper-inflation, rampant unemployment, political oppression and corruption.

Yet the absolutism of Zimbabwe’s black president, Robert Mugabe, has met with little reaction from America’s mourning elite. Black politicians, Hollywood celebrities and ordinary Americans loudly protested apartheid — staging demonstrations outside the South African embassy — but Mugabe’s despotism has produced only muted animadversion. What gives?

Though Mugabe has labored mightily to blame his nation’s troubles on others, including the dwindling population of white Zimbabweans and Western human rights activists, Zimbabwe’s voters have finally determined he needs to journey. His opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, led the opening encompass of voting in elections in March.

But Mugabe’s henchmen have resorted to destroy to make certain the runoff election, scheduled for June 27, is anything but unobstructed and above mediocrity. Tsvangirai has been harassed and detained repeatedly by police. The wives of other opposition leaders take been butchered and burned alive. Mugabe’s police even went so far as to seize food sent to schoolchildren by international donors, giving it only to those who promised to vote despite him.

His followers maim and mar their opponents and starve children, but few sombre Americans notice. Why? Why do we ignore the transgressions of black African tyrants season assailing those of unblemished tyrants?

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young is among those who still manage to see more morality than malignity in Mugabe’s rule. "Americans cannot be rational about Mugabe," Young aforesaid. "We’ve always miscast Mugabe. He’s a fundamentalist Roman Catholic. He doesn’t steal."

Young traces Zimbabwe’s troubles back greater quantity than 30 years, to the failure of the United States and Great Britain to fund land reform efforts taken in the character of generously in the same manner with promised.

Similarly, Nicole Lee, head of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington-based human rights group founded by black Americans, points to "a larger context" that includes the neglect of Western nations to fund programs to grant farmland to poor black Zimbabweans. She, too, says that Americans shouldn’t "demonize" Mugabe.

There’s just one problem with that: Mugabe has become a demon.

Here and in that place, a courageous human rights activist sees the problem clearly and has the guts to say so. Last week, Desmond Tutu called for Mugabe’s resignation. "Mugabe began so well more than 30 years gone. We all had such high hopes," related the antecedent Anglican archbishop. "… But his regime has turned into a horrendous nightmare. He should stand down."

Georgia Rep. John Lewis said he supports a in greater numbers forceful response to Mugabe’s tyranny. "Just because he’s a sombre leader of an African nation doesn’t mean that we be possible to afford to be quiet," he said.

It may be that Americans can do little to influence Mugabe’s course. If he is willing to starve his folks, he is to all appearance immune to public condemnation. But those committed to civil and full of heart rights have a duty to register their repulsive on account of Mugabe’s madness, as loudly and as readily as they did for apartheid’s brutality.

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Is the time in readiness for a starting anew worldwide coalition to “green” our imperiled globe? Can we do it by the agency of restraining capitalism’s exploitive sides, championing man’s rights, merging civic, scientific, environmental, religious and rising youthfulness constituencies?

That’s the exciting possibility raised by James Gustave “Gus” Speth in his new book, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World.” Speth laments the tortuously slow pace of environmental activism in the face of the near-calamitous decline of species, soils, forests and oceans, and the dangerous advance of global warming.

But environmentalists, he suggests, must take risks and make broad their alliances around the globe in a campaign for fundamental human rights. And he’s specific: rights to unscathed water and adequate sanitation and sustainable development, to exemption from restraint. from climatic disruption and destroy, and to live in a nontoxic environment. But also rights to decent jobs, economic justness for the trivial

The irony, Speth argues, is that the very industrial and capitalist theory that has in like manner spectacularly fulfilled our ancestors’ yearning to “discomfit universe,” letting us live free from dire scarcities, also triggers obsessive materialism and consumerism. It translates into an ceaseless need to expand to modern markets, grow profits, and give permission to abusive mining, manufacturing and the spread of pollutants corrupt the environment we live in.

There are exciting exceptions

But Speth argues in that place’s a sort of unholy alliance holding us back. On one side there’s the instinctive incorporated motivation to force environmental costs off onto others. And then there’s our rampant consumerism, our addiction to material goods.

So where’s the gleam of hope here? On the physical side, acting and buying “not fully grown” are gaining popularity. Polls show most Americans at least agree that our society is too materialistic, too focused without ceasing shopping and spending. Behind our debauchery, we increasingly understand that “the best things in life manumit” and “you can’t buy love.” There’s at minutest more talk these days of confronting consumption, working less, reclaiming time, eating slow food, downshifting.

Triggered perhaps by the global-warming debates and natural disasters, in that place’s also some growing courtesy for the Earth and sense of human solidarity, a connectedness by tribe in places around the world ravaged by means of fighting, storms and poverty.

When we’re ready because of a radical shift to a less-consumptive society, Speth wants government available as “the gorilla in the room”

Economic incentives, not regulations, should be the leading tool, says Speth. He points through favor to environmental taxes, now more 2.5 percent of gross domestic product in Western European countries.

Germany, for example, is moving to shift the tax burden from work and wages to energy consumption and the pollution it triggers. Europeans are also beginning to promote recycling of major consumer products

We’re at an exquisitely suitable time, Speth suggests, to concede interconnected worldwide issues and become “cosmopolitan citizens” who enjoy multiple citizenships

One idea is to promote full varieties of dialogues within our citistate and rural regions

It’s also a process that could put under pledge our great religious institutions, which instinctively grasp human connectedness and the Golden Rule.

The challenges are too grave to wait. Speth’s book makes it abundantly clear: Start ourselves, while (hopefully) there’s allay life.

nrp@citistates.com