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"Nature suffers in unforeseen ways: forests fail to regenerate, soils are impoverished, the climate changes, freshwater tables are lowered, ocean levels rise, and the atmosphere becomes polluted. Ultimately the Macroshift builds toward a point of bifurcation, the critical third phase at which society's evolutionary path is rapidly decided. As in nature, bifurcations in society are triggered by instabilities that are beyond the ability of the system to overcome: this is the true meaning of "unsustainability." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"I sometimes tell my friends at the NIH that global warming is a bigger threat than Alzheimer's disease and joke that when the ocean levels rise and flood Washington and the NIH headquarters in Maryland, the "march to progress" against AD will look pretty inconsequential. It's a sardonic joke, of course, but the point about broadening and realigning our priorities is often well taken. alzheimer's goes to washington In 1979 the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association was created in Washington, D.C." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Satellites, though, can only see into upper ocean levels. To plumb the deepest parts of the ocean, we need to take a dive—with sensors, submersibles, and robotic "autonomous underwater vehicles." Underwater gliders are doing a lot of the work. These vessels use small changes in Tagging fish in preparation for release will allow scientists to track the success of reintroduction programs. buoyancy in conjunction with their wings to propel themselves and turn vertical motion into forward movement with very little power." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"More than 90 percent of Florida's population depends on groundwater as the source of drinking water for public and private wells. If ocean levels rise even marginally, seawater will invade the Biscayne aquifer and Floridians will have to make other arrangements. At the upper margins of global warming prediction, a reduction of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets similar to past reductions could cause sea level to rise ten or more meters. A sea-level rise of ten meters would flood about 25 percent of the U.S." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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