Doing so does not, however, mean that we agree with his or her position on every single issue within the political spectrum, and it does not violate our corporate values.” (Chubb Corp, 2013, pp. 69–70.) The arguments presented above allow for two conclusions. First, some firms may ...
For some pollutants (e.g., acid rain and deforestation from industrial sulfur emissions), this may indeed be a problem. However, a large body of evidence indicates that local impacts predominate for pollutants that most heavily affect the poor. The foremost examples are fine particulate air ...
Iran - What Does Ahmadi-Nejad's Victory Mean The surprise election of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, who is being sworn in as president this week, has given rise to dire predictions about Iran's domestic and foreign policies and relations with the U.S. and the European Union. There are reas... ...
2. What does the underlined word "diminishing" in paragraph 3 mean? A.loweringB.decreasingC.increasingD.enlarging 3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a result of the Amazon fires? A.human healthB.global warmingC.deforestationD.species loss ...
Examples of human infectious disease that can be affected by upsetting these equilibria include malaria and leishmaniasis through deforestation [24]; Lyme disease through changes in the number of acorns and in the populations of black-legged ticks, white-footed mice and white-tailed deer [25]; Ar...
The “clearing,” which today also refers to deforestation (among other meanings), is an artificial and ruthless “safe-space” that is left after “separating” nature from itself. It emerges in the face of the dynamics of relation and separation (or absence of relation). As we have seen...
(Wilson 1995, 2001). For example, a recent study in Conservation Biology (Harris 2004) opens by saying that “Intense deforestation causes massive species losses.” Wilson says that due to habitat reduction we are in the “sixth great wave of extinctions”, comparable in size to the five ...
(5) the window of infectivity varies in different individuals and some may be infectious for several weeks (these “long-term spreaders” represent a fraction of the infected population, probably too small to significantly affect the spreading of the virus; thus, the quarantine length could ignore...
because that is just the kind of thingthe BUGdoes). We had beers with an author of a recent paper in Nature about the discovery of chloroplast-maintenance code in nudibranch genes; he not only agreed with me about the end of Battlestar Galactica, but he even looked like Ronald D. Moore...
It seems to me that the situation is much more worrisome than most people would expect. Even if there are some temporary good effects, they will be more than offset by bad effects, some of which could be very bad indeed. We may be reaching limits of a finite world. ...