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Exploiting scientific illiteracy THE PEW APPROACH to polling described above is reminiscent of that used by the Idaho junior high school student Nathan Zohner, who found that 8 6 percent of survey respondents thought the substance "dihydrogen monoxide" should be banned when they were told that prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage, exposure to its gaseous form causes severe burns, and it has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.\n It is no coincidence, according to Taverne, that eco-fundamentalists are strongly represented in anti-globalization and anti-capitalism demonstrations around the world. [...] they are strikingly simi- lar to Alexander Hamilton's summary of the reasons that the United States Constitution would not, in some quarter...
... of respondents' ignorance about key facts: 1 ) with the exception of wild berries and wild m... and to environmentfriendly no-till farming (which produces less runoff of chemicals, soil ero... consumption - even more in areas of intensive farming and arid or semiarid conditions - so the i...
... have continued investing in carbon intensive energy sources and promoting trade agreements that...(58) . III. FACTS: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: ENVIRONME... that are carbon intensive, such as farming, fossil fuel use for energy, and raising livestock...
With local, organic and sustainably produced food all the rage, the big food processors and factory farm associations are running scared. This is the message author Anna Lappe brought to Space Gallery in Portland on April 15 as part of the venue's annual Food+Farm series. There's a growing global consensus about food and farming" and its relation to climate change and environmental degradation, Lappe told the crowd. "This growing consensus is exactly why the food industry is so worried.
... to conveniently ignore science and facts and instead use its well-connected spokespeople to... myths about the need for petroleum-intensive farming. This was information that the foodie crow...
... acquire, store, and distribute water for farming in a limited geographic area. (29) The unit covere...Three facts decisively distinguish Salyer from the Kansas case... resolved this question through a fact-intensive analysis. The principle underlying the challenge t...
... by prairie dogs, cattle grazing, fire, or farming. In semi-desert environments, breeding habitat may...Despite more intensive study in recent years, it is not clear if, or to w...; in those cases we analyze the specific facts for that mechanism to determine the extent to whic...
... Are Appropriate When More Than Just Facts Are at Issue 2. Anticipated Discovery Burdens Shou... rules that cast away formal and fact-intensive pleadings in favor of merely providing a party "no... and fighter jet are a far cry from the farming equipment and automobiles of the 1930s, which at t...
... their workers involved in Christmas tree farming. On appeal, the Growers argue that, because their ...I. The facts of this case are essentially undisputed. Although ... development and are not managed as intensively as Christmas trees. Christmas trees also are shear...
... majority of leading companies in water-intensive industries have weak management and disclosure of ... water of more than 20,000 women and men, farming and fishing communities and indigenous peoples set...& LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY, VOLUME 1: FACING THE FACTS AND CHARTING A LEGAL PATH 4 (2008). . (44.) Englis...
... be otherwise, by shifting focus to whether facts existed to justify a particular law. The original...Rodriguez rebuffed an intensive effort with widespread support in lower court deci... hire, of persons whose chief business is farming and dairying, but who occasionally haul farm and d...
Roxanne Quimby has been labeled many things in the 27 years since she built a line of beeswax beauty products, sold the business for hundreds of millions of dollars and then turned her attention to Maines North Woods. She has been alternately hailed as a savvy entrepreneur and pilloried as a cold-hearted businesswoman, praised as a visionary conservationist by supporters and demonized by critics as a dangerous environmental crusader.
...Facts indicate itll be a long haul to the top if a Main..., ATV riding and other forms of more-intensive recreation would be allowed. Lastly, in an effort ... remains in private hands and is home to farming, commercial forestry and other businesses. Christo...
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