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The urban forest of the future: how to turn our cities into Treetopias We are and will continue to plant more street trees, urban groves and informal clusters of trees in our parks and green spaces. Treetopia has begun. The Bosco Verticale In Milan in spring, West side. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The 21st century is the urban century. It has been forecast that urban areas across the world will have expanded by more than 2.5 billion people by 2050. The scale and speed of urbanisation has created significant environmental and health problems for urban dwellers. These problems are often made wor...

Alone. and offering a reminder that republicans never vetoed a single bill in 6 1/2 years. how is that for cutting spending? as for the partisan impasse, mr. simpson adding, there isn't a single sitting member of congress, not one, that doesn't know exactly where we're headed. let's furnish to the washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine, david corn. david, good evening. >> good to be with you, keith. >> deficit reduction. can we say this is something republican lawmakers are for, only until the president then becomes for it or unless a republican president has an agenda they can pass ...

Most republicans, in the senate we saw a lot of republicans, seven, i think, who supported the bill to create a deficit commission. and then when it became obama's bill, they opposed it. these guys are just playing an opposite game. and they're really hoping -- this is the -- i think, the basic principle here, that things are going to get worse in the country and that all they can do -- all they can -- all they'll have to do next november is say, look what barack obama did to us. >> following the instructions of rush limbaugh. that's actually, literally, the case. there is some sort of silver ...

Most republicans, in the senate we saw a lot of republicans, seven, i think, who supported the bill to create a deficit commission. and then when it became obama's bill, they opposed it. these guys are just playing an opposite game. and they're really hoping -- this is the -- i think, the basic principle here, that things are going to get worse in the country and that all they can do -- all they can -- all they'll have to do next november is say, look what barack obama did to us. >> following the instructions of rush limbaugh. that's actually, literally, the case. there is some sort of silver ...

Go back and look at what happened with thomas jefferson and john adams. they actually arrested political opponents back in those days. i mean, the thing is that we have real, honest to goodness philosophical and political and policy differences in this country. and there's nothing wrong with having dragdown fights over this. but what is wrong is when it's only about partisan politics. when there is no concern about facts and about policy making. and i think, perhaps, simpson maybe a throwback to the days where the policy differences drove the debate, not just simply scoring political points. a...