In many ways, this kind of two-way communication is well suited to the implicit complexities and uncertainty attending life on a crowding planet that is showing signs of strain from the blazingly fast expansion of this human experiment. When I was 12, in 1968, there were about 3.5 billion of us. We’ve nearly doubled since then and will approach triple that number around mid-century. And our appetite for energy and other resources has grown even faster. So far, technological and social innovations have enabled our species to burst through predicted walls. Can we keep that up? This remains an open question, to my mind.
via dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Andy Revkin, the creator of the Dot Earth blog on the NYT site is leaving the paper to become a fellow at Pace's Academy for Applied Enviromnetal Studies. His post about his news has some great examples of how the web can be used to create better understanding of our relationship to the environment.
