Solutions to economic destruction of the planet?

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The BBC 2007 Reith lectures by Jeffrey Sachs, internationally-renowned economist and advisor to many governments around the world http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/ where he argues that the world faces challenges on an unprecedented scale - the destruction of the planet through global warming, terrorism, extreme poverty, disease and bad governance - and the solutions he offers. Opponent of the Iraq war, critic of Bush, humanitarian and optimist, he has a lot of interesting practical ideas regarding the state of science today, climate change and "us&them" mentality, that reach out to the politicians. Can be downloaded as mp3.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/