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Title: What Does Today Owe Tomorrow?
Post by: riky on May 20, 2014, 09:00:18 AM
What Does Today Owe Tomorrow?

<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/penny-hoff/what-does-today-owe-tomor_b_5349099.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/f9SOJPdO14FcraS_PgWAqw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Huffington%20Post/What_Does_Today_Owe_Tomorrow?-ddbc5349dbee0ee2d70c3df71936cd8e" width="130" height="86" alt="What Does Today Owe Tomorrow?" align="left" title="What Does Today Owe Tomorrow?" border="0" /></a>A recent New York Times headline about sustainability asked this question: &quot;What Does Tomorrow Owe Today?&quot; The article continued in a more provocative devil's advocate tone to ask &quot;What have future generations done for us?&quot; It's an age-old ethical question: Do we take care of the Earth for future inhabitants because it's the right thing to do? It's also an economical debate: Do we spend the hard-earned dollars in our own pocket trying to make Earth &quot;better&quot; -- whatever that means -- for future generations? And if we do, is this a worthwhile investment? And like I always do, I</p><br clear="all"/>

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