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Life, Earth and the Universe.

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• A comment on Conversation: Clean technology, while a huge opportunity, will not go to scale in time to prevent a global economic and social crisis.

  Mar 28 2012: In the end, If we could implement clean energy tomorrow, I think it would lessen the economic downturn, but it won't make it go away, till the other problems are resolved.

• A comment on Conversation: Clean technology, while a huge opportunity, will not go to scale in time to prevent a global economic and social crisis.

  Mar 28 2012: Large problems with banks handing out more loans then the money they have....I totally agree, but the same can be said about the consumer, receiving loans that they might not be able to pay. I totally agree with you views...I just think their are so many other things that come in to play. The same can be said about every form of business, real estate, medical, etc. It's a collective problem shared by everybody. I don't want put the blame on just one thing.
  
  You can't underestimate the other man's greed.

• A reply on Conversation: Clean technology, while a huge opportunity, will not go to scale in time to prevent a global economic and social crisis.

  Mar 28 2012: Krisztian, you don't see a problem with Banks giving out credit? It's not that in specific, but we are in a global economic crisis as we speak. Clean technology is irrelevant, we should implement it anyways..but it will deepen crisis just like everything else is...

• A comment on Conversation: Clean technology, while a huge opportunity, will not go to scale in time to prevent a global economic and social crisis.

  Mar 28 2012: For me it's simple..People living beyond their means. We live in a world of credit and selfishness that has destroyed the value of the dollar,but we should definitely continue on our journey for clean and reusable energy and once were on the right track the first thing we need to change is ourselves. No matter what type of energy we see efficient and clean enough for ourselves, the problem will always be the same... the way we use it and harbor it...
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  A comment on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 24 2012: There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known.
  
  Carl Sagan on the view of Earth from Saturn.
  
  It explains to me and the world how fragile we really are... we can thank Gods, Evolution, or just blind Luck..but we should never take what we have for granted and we should do everything in our power as a whole species to procure it.
  
  "As fast as it was given, it can be taken away".