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Our moral footprint

Vaclav Havel on our moral footprint: As a result of our endeavors and our irresponsibility, our climate might leave no place for us. One hundred fifty years after the publication of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is helping scientists monitor global warming. A review of Bjorn Lomborg’s Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. For angry environmental heretics on the run, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger sure know how to enjoy themselves. The top 100 effects of global warming: Get ready for more bear attacks, fewer frogs, and a dire shortage of guacamole. Why climate change can't be stopped: Environmental advocates have finally managed to put the issue of global warming at the top of the world’s agenda. But the scientific, economic, and political realities may mean that their efforts are too little, too late.