Word: effective
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Picking tritons is illegal, but the law can't be policed. There are other, quite legal, ways in which we are steadily bringing about the end of the world. Just for an example, there's the Greenhouse Effect gone wild. Our heavy industry, oil heat, and combustion in general are putting too much CO2 into our air. CO2 in our atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun (reflected off the earth) as heat. This is called the Greenhouse Effect. It was important in the evolution of the earth into a life-supporting planet. The world is getting hotter and hotter...
...like to see mass suffering, and the symptoms of the end, millions shortening their lives on polluted air and starving to death in overpopulated countries, are already with us. And because the binds of a complex technology make our every action a cause or effect on someone else's life, we are responsible for their agony...
...realization of the coming end of the world has a disruptive effect on one's thinking, it is only because his values have been previously misaligned. For example, if you had been writing a book, you might think the book would be meaningless after the end of the world. However, you can't really write a book because you think people will read it and then think something of you, you have to write it because you enjoy doing...
...acre area is still the target, however, of planned expansion by the Massachusetts Mental Hospital and by Harvard, Notices for eviction from the area by 1975 at the latest are still in effect...
...endorsed the press statement dissociating themselves from RYM at a meeting last night-with one amendment. The sentence calling RYM actions "the work of provocateurs and police agents" was omitted, and in the phrase "their aim is to discredit and destroy the student movement" 'aim' was changed to read 'effect...