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Thursday, June 7, 2007 12:00 AM

"Are We Rome?"

Hollowed out by arrogance, corruption and a bloated military, the greatest empire the world has ever known fell. Is America doomed to follow in its footsteps?
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Thursday, June 7, 2007 05:32 AM

    Rome? Try a more fundamental comparison...

    Rome?

    Despite a few mealy-mouthed phrases from The Decider designed to stall real action, we continue to produce waste at a rate which is likely to render our environment unable to support our species.

    There's another species which reproduces madly and produces waste without restriction, turning its environment into an unsurvivable hell and self-exterminating its population.

    We may be Rome. But we're probably yeast, too.

    —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters

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