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The present eats up the future

The “natural disasters” of this summer show that our political and economic model has reached its limits – By Harald Welzer

Here is the good news from the summer of 2010: The economic crisis has been overcome in Germany; automobile sales are booming, especially of luxury cars; German exports are reaching high levels thanks to the weak euro, and skilled and specialized workers, especially engineers, are in demand; BP has supposedly capped the oil bubbling up from the Gulf of Mexico, the DAX and the Dow are at permanently high levels.

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