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 In his Post-America World , Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria argues that countries like India, China, Brazil are running fast, working hard, saving well and thinking long term. “They have adopted our lessons and are playing our game,” he said. If we don’t fix our political system and start thinking strategically about how to improve our competitiveness, he added, “the U.S. risks having its unique and advantageous position in the world erode as other countries rise.” There are five major trends driving us today -- energy supply and demand, petro-dictatorships, poverty, food supply and demand and biodiversity loss. We will have one billion more people on the planet in the next 12 years. And if we gave each one of those new people one single incandescent light bulb, suggests New York Times pundit Thomas Friedman, we would need 20 more power plants just to turn on those billion bulbs. In November, 2007, a small group of citizens began working to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialog. They called themselves Science Debate 2008, and they called for a presidential debate on science, tapping a wellspring of concern over the state of American science. Within weeks, more than 37,500 scientists, engineers, and other concerned Americans signed on, including nearly every major American science organization, dozens of Nobel laureates, elected officials and business leaders, and the presidents of over 100 major American univers ... |
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