Word: environmentalism
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Three new reports by research teams in the U.S., Europe and Iceland have identified, for the first time, specific gene variants that appear to make some smokers and former smokers more susceptible than others to cancer. The two variants - or differences in a single nucleotide - exist in about 34% of...
...thing, Jensen willfully ignores many improvements and ambiguities in measures of environmental health: Air quality in the States has improved over the last 30 years, the release of toxic chemicals into the environment has dropped, and scientists have never been able to reliably measure water quality. His theory instead relies on the arrogant assumption that “civilization”—the product of billions of individuals’ decisions and actions—can be boiled down to one big apocalyptic bang...
Instead of rolling all our problems into one big war, in which rape and coal-mining are equivalent, those in favor of change would be (and often are) better served by careful parsing of the distinctions, by working through the possibility of unintended consequences before acting, and by drawing connections...
“I think the environment we were in with a lot of turbulence compared to the economy during the last search may have sped the process up,” he said.
Just before the Easter break in mid-March, Barney Frank, head of the House financial services committee, announced a series of initiatives to restructure financial regulation, create a new financial services uber-regulator and stiffen restrictions on Wall Street's complex financial tools for issuing credit and raising capital. His...