According to Ian Morris in his book, Why The West Rules – For Now, the measure of man is per capita energy consumption. Mr. Morris, standing on the shoulders of the seminal 1971 Scientific American article by Earl Cook, The Flow of Energy in an Industrial Society, points out that modern Americans are estimated to […]
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly
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