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  • … at your usual club nights only to find that there is an unrelated gust pattern and those gusts are even backed rather than veered. What you then have is another effect such as a valley, a major thermal over land-often say a hot city - or a mountain creating a surface laminar flow which races …

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  • … change is the ripple effect that results from using land currently used for food for fuel production. This may indirectly lead to decimated forests or tilled prairies for new farms to make up for lost food crops. Such land clearing, especially in tropical forests, releases large amounts of greenhouse …

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  • … and also serve as scavengers of normal waste of a non-toxic nature. The effect of pollution creates a hostile environment in which survival becomes increasingly difficult. Even if one link in nature’s chain is broken the effects on the environment can be devastating. As yet there is no device …

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  • … will definitely has a harmful effect on the marine environment. Moreover in the case of Sabah water it has plentiful of coral that make up of calcium material, and a large quantity of Sulphate discharge into our Sea will definitely has a marine environment disaster. Not to talk about the toxic material carry …

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  • … destroyed, as long as we have sufficient arable land, the factories, the necessary resources, and technical personnel, we could build anything and even supply an abundance. During the Depression, there were vacuum cleaners in store windows and automobiles in car lots. The Earth was still the same place …

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  • … on that topic: A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling …

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  • … And may I point out the curious fact that they have become synonyms both in the language that diplomats use and in the language that psychologists use - as well, it seems as in the language that humanists speak.’ (George Kelly The Meaning of Threat) One wonders what new variant of a mutational …

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  • … of investment in the environment and climate change as being opposed to economic growth. [For] economic growth in the future, a prerequisite is that we stop treating the planet like a subprime loan. In that sense, the economic crisis we have at the moment is useful in terms of analyzing what’s going …

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  • … at the Singapore Energy Conference on November 5: We chose a piece of land that has totally been devolved of its past nature. Because of many years of salt farming, it is not possible for that piece of land to have trees. That’s why we chose that piece of land…from a low base we can create the future. More …

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  • … revolution humans, who in effect have stepped outside local ecosystems. Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems - converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted “weeds” — and all but a few …