It makes sense: natural resources like petroleum and iron are limited and replace themselves at a slow rate while the human population not only grows exponentially but consumes ever increasing amounts of goods and degrades the environment ever faster. The conclusion: we're headed for trouble. Not so, says Bjorn Lomborg, an apostate former Greenpeacenik whom many environmentalists now love to hate. Also: a group whose ancestors escaped a slave ship to the island of St. Vincent have brought their Punta music to New York City.
Dennis Racket
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio 101), is against making war on Iraq and Leslie Cagan, co-chairwoman of United for Peace and Justice, the umbrella group that is organizing the protests next week, opposes military action
Open Phones
Callers reaction to Powell's speeches
Punta By Numbers
J. King, foundation of Garifuna Artists and member of Black Fever, a punta music band, on the music of the Garifuna, punta music
Peter, Peter, Eager Seceder
Peter Vallone, Jr., city council member (D-22nd District, Astoria), says New York City should leave the Empire State if it doesn't get a fair shake
Orange Alert
Mark Hosenball, investigative correspondent for Newsweek, on Tom Ridge’s alert is about this time
Growing Pains
Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and author of Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, 2001), responds to criticism about his book and discusses his essay from Foreign Policy magazine