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INTERVIEW-New book puts cost of saving planet at $190 bln
07 Mar 2008 10:19:00 GMT - Written by: Timothy Large
What would it cost to wipe out world poverty, guarantee universal health care, stabilise population growth and roll back the ravages of global warming?
About $190 billion a year, or the equivalent of a third of U.S. annual military expenditure, a prominent environmental economist says in a new book.
"Once you accept that climate change, population growth, spreading water shortages, rising food prices etcetera are threats to our security, it changes your whole way of thinking about how you use public resources," Lester Brown told Reuters in an interview

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Is het culturele klimaat in Nederland aan het veranderen onder de invloed van de conservatieve, religieus reactionaire en fundamentalistische krachten?
Wij (and the rest of the world) letten op!

The New European Internet Hot Spots
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
By Ben Macklin and Karin von Abrams, Senior Analysts
Europe is a diverse region comprising 48 countries, 27 of which are in the European Union. The region contains some of the world's Internet usage leaders, such as the Netherlands and Scandinavia, where penetration is around 80% of the population.
In contrast, countries such as Greece, Russia, Poland and Italy lag well behind the European average. But most of these nations are enjoying a surge of Internet growth. Within five years, only Russia will have less than half of its population online.
In terms of sheer size, Germany is the largest Internet market in Europe, followed by Russia and the UK, according to eMarketer’s recent estimates.