Not with a bang but a (girl-on-girl) whimper

To quote T.S. Eliot, this is the way the world ends:

• Number of views for youtube.com video of Jeff Sachs discussing global environmental challenges and the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals: 1,849.
• Number of views for youtube.com music video of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl": 3,302,857.

Let's hear what they have to say:

"It is our technology that gives us both the capacity to save the world and to destroy the world.  What do we need to do?  We need to understand what we're doing.  We need a new science.  Sustainable development doesn't exist as a department.  One needs to integrate across ecology, earth systems, environmental engineering, economics, public policy, and public health.  We need to create this new discipline.  At Columbia, we believe we have created the first Ph.D. program focusing on sustainable development."

"I kissed a girl and I liked it \ The taste of her cherry chapstick \ I kissed a girl just to try it \ I hope my boyfriend don't mind it"