Compared With U.s. Cities, Japanese Cities Bend

The Human Propensity Is To Believe That Flukes Of Good Fortune Will Never Come To An End.

A Whole Bunch Of Big Technological Shocks Occurred When Asian Innovations - Paper, Gunpowder, The Stirrup, The Moldboard Plow And So On - Came To Europe Via The Silk Road.

A World With A Sudden Limit On Air Travel Would Be Tremendously Different From The One We Live In Now.

The Way I Think Of It, Economics And Ecology Occupy Two Intellectual Silos, Isolated From Each Other. Even When They Do Take Each Other Into Consideration, It's Not Uncommon For Ecologists To Spout Absolute Nonsense About Economics, And Vice Versa.

Compared With U.s. Cities, Japanese Cities Bend Over Backward To Help Foreigners. The Countryside Is Another Matter.