Do as I say, not as I do

Greenpeace has a spot, watch it and see what you think.



Time has an article...

Time: When cities break down

Urban planning experts say America's older cities are modern-day Pompeiis — within range of volcanoes of infrastructure failures like New York's. On Wednesday, a pipe, laid in 1924, exploded near Grand Central station, killing one person and injuring 30. Maintaining a sewer system is hardly a sexy political issue, but years of funding neglect and a subsequent lack of maintenance nationwide have left many of the country's engineering systems unprepared to handle future stresses. "We have an aging infrastructure in this country, and we are not doing enough to maintain it and replace it," said Sarah Catz, director of the Center for Urban Infrastructure at University of California-Irvine. "What you saw happen in New York will happen in all types of infrastructures."

There are no complicated answers, only intricate rationalizations and selfishnesses that must be accommodated. They say in the later days of Rome, the priveledged were as children and the children were aged beyond their years.