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...planet is getting hotter, but shouldn't we at least be considering the possibility that we are going through a natural cycle that we can't stop or lessen? Reducing carbon dioxide may be a good idea, but shouldn't we also be thinking about how we can adapt to environmental change, as all species have had to do at some point...
...certain because of energy infrastructure already in place, such as power plants and vehicles on the road. Three degrees will take us to a level at or just above the warmest in the past million years. The changes at that level are substantial but something we can probably adapt to. In order to limit change to that level we need to get on a track that I call the alternative scenario, which requires that we begin to slow emissions this decade and substantially reduce them before mid- century. If we stay on a business-as-usual path for another decade...
...particularly important, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) has encouraged the College to choose a director who will prioritize students and their input when creating the center and maintaining it once it opens. We hope that the director will be someone who will create a dynamic institution that will adapt to the needs of students. Although the director’s personality and values are important, an interactive relationship between the director and students is an essential component to creating a student-friendly center that is continually relevant to student life...
...more than 20% of the population ,and small businesses are not willing to deal with the extra costs of huge marginal tax rates, compensation, and other labor costs. The bill might be incompatible with post-World War II standards, but just like Germany and Italy, France has to adapt in order to save its precious safety net. If reforms do not pass, the whole European project is at stake. This is about adaptation or extinction. In 1968, amidst the barricades that inspired Jean Paul Sartre, ideals rotted because of extremism and ideological stagnation. Beautiful dreams turned into anarchism, burning books...
...skirt. The mint and olive green outfit is undeniably dowdy.“We joke a lot about the army female class-A uniform,” Williams says. “It’s so ugly.”And though attempts have been made to adapt the formal pants to suit the female form, none has quite succeeded. The cadets complain that the pants ride up far above their belly buttons. “Men look good in uniform,” Waterman says. “We don’t look good in ours...