American Land

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High Noon *
High Noon - Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them *
Contents vii
Author's Note and Warning ix
Part One - It's Not Globalization, Stupid *
1 - Two Big Forces 3
2 - Stretching the Planet to the Limit: The Demographic Explosion 5
3 - Doing Everything Differently: The New World Economy and the Two Revolutions behind It 11
4 - Why the New World Economy Is So Radically Different 17
5 - The Opportunities and Stresses of the New World Economy 25
6 - A Crisis of Complexity? 37
7 - Three New Realities 41
Part Two - High Noon—For Twenty Urgent Global Issues *
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Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and after her marriage in 1914 she went by the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger.