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Monday, December 10, 2007

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U.S. in awkward spot at climate talks

T-shirt with Stop Global Warming message in Bali

At a U.N. conference on global warming in Bali, the United States is the elephant in the room. Sam Eaton's been following the meeting and discusses the issues with Kai Ryssdal.

A T-shirt with an environmental awareness message is on sale near the U.N. Climate Change Conference 2007 site in Nusa Dua on Bali island. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

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  • By Fist and By Fury Tommy Guerrero
  • All Things to All Men Cinematic Orchestra
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  • Doctor Dekker The Skatalites
  • You Still Believe in Me M. Ward

Marketplace Confessional

"Chris Farrell calls this a 'blue-collar recession'. According to journalist Nan Mooney and professor of financial law Elizabeth Warren, the white-collar middle-class may not be losing jobs, but they are falling behind in earnings and growing in debt, so are feeling -- and are -- less secure than their parents. Job loss, wage stagnation (or retreat) for white-collar workers, job insecurity . . . really rankle when we see the top 1 percent continue to grow richer each year, and often because today's business practices squeeze the rest of us till we bleed."

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Intimate profiles of workers in the global economy.

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Consumer Consequences game

Find out what the world would look like if everyone lived like you. An interactive game from American Public Media.

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What is "sustainability?" It boils down to this: Don't eat your seed corn.

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