<p> <p>Just as feudalism proved too inflexible for industrialization, capitalism appears too inflexible for sustainability. And sustainability increasingly appears necessary for survival.&nbsp;Democracy and capitalism get along famously well, as America has demonstrated, and nothing can stop them.&nbsp;Except the planet.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s the developed democracies of ...

<p> <p>With the election of a Republican to the Senate yesterday, hope has dimmed that the United States will cap its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming year, and on that hope rests the greater hope that the rest of the warming world can do the same.&nbsp;But the world has no intention of letting the United States off the hook, one of its more patient spokesmen warned this ...

<p> <p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is the lynchpin vote for the U.S. to pass a law limiting greenhouse gas emissions next year. He and Joe Lieberman agreed to play along only after Democrats accepted concessions promoting nuclear energy, offshore oil drilling, and oxymoronic clean coal.</p> <p>A U.S. law limiting carbon emissions, meanwhile, is crucial to an equally f...