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...seem very proud of your arrests in the book. How many times have you been arrested? I was arrested five times this year by the same police officer. So I think that's got me close to 50 or over. It's hard to remember them all anymore...
...feel as if your radical acts have been successful? How do you measure progress? The Mount Rushmore action happened right before Congress was supposed to take a very close vote on the acid-rain bill. That bill did pass shortly after that, requiring a 50% reduction, so that one was successful. Certainly the whaling campaigns have been successful. We've seen from experience that this kind of aggressive approach can be more successful than the insider, smoky-backroom approach larger environmental groups are using...
Social networks are powerful, but, the authors argue, online sites do not seem to be increasing how many close friends students have. In a study of Facebook pages at an unnamed university, students traded posts and photo tags with six and seven people, not far from sociologists’s estimate that people have four to six close friends in real life...
...effects of climate change, however, the flooding came as no surprise. In its fourth assessment report in 2007, the Inter- Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that more extreme droughts, floods, and storms, would become commonplace in the future, and that these intense weather conditions would follow in close succession to each other, often in the same areas...
...Peterson Institute for International Economics says that of all the potential damage that could occur from climate change, damage to agriculture is likely to be the most devastating. "In the southern parts of India, damage will be substantial and similar to that in other countries also located close to the equator," he says. "In these locations, where temperatures are already at high levels, an increase in temperature will surpass crop tolerance levels...