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...Electronic waste is one of the main culprits. About 220 million electrical products are released onto the British market alone each year. As demand for such goods increases in places like China and India, global e-waste could explode, Holdway warns. The E.U. says it's addressing the problem through its 2003 WEEE directive, which requires producers to pay for the collection of equipment and to meet targets for recycling, reuse and recovery...
...They were people with very bad disease and therefore needed urgently to get the drugs,” Idoko said yesterday in a phone interview from his clinic in Jos. “The demand for drugs in this country is so high...
This leads to a fundamental problem for oil companies: the world thirsts for oil and there is not enough in other countries to sustain worldwide demand. So, oil companies have no choice but to deal with these regimes. It would be hard to establish a code of ethical investment for all oil companies. After all, if some regime is too sordid or controversial for a publicly listed U.S. oil company, there are plenty of other national oil companies in countries that do not care much for human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts...
...really want to starve the beast of these governments, there are two viable options: military force or reducing oil demand. Forced change of these governments is generally drastic and unpopular—no one is clamoring for invasions of Sudan or Burma. The other option is to give pause to how world oil demand could be reduced. While demand remains at current levels, these governments will get their money and very little can be done to change these governments that have no internal incentives to improve. Thus, if we want to make a real difference we should not vent...
This often gives older men, who are more likely to carry HIV than younger men, the power to demand unprotected sex. As a result, Luke said in an interview last night, the chances of having unsafe sex, and therefore transmitting HIV, are greatly increased...