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...fish that brought the vessels there in the first place. A "rapidly growing number of scientific studies documenting [deep-sea] trawling impacts led to the unmistakable conclusion that bottom trawling is the world's most harmful method of fishing," says the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, which comprises leading environmental NGOs around the world and advocates an immediate moratorium on the practice...
...scientific debate over global warming may largely be over, but the ethical debate rages on. Some NGOs and their political sympathizers insist that climate change is the fault of the affluent who must atone for the sin of industrialization. No unnecessary travel, thermostats turned down, no luxury homes or supersized SUVs. This call for penance is combined with fantasies of sudden, miraculous technological change. Many too easily accept the argument that only by limiting economic growth can we achieve real solutions. This thinking is deeply misguided. First, the technological quick fix simply isn't coming, and second, it defies human...
...government machinery, ensured that the final product would fulfill Putin’s desires and expectations. There is at least one video showing ballot boxes being crammed. The results, if they tell us anything at all, are only a washed out picture of reality. After cracking down on NGOs, journalists, and opposition parties, Putin removed all doubt about his fondness for fraud when he barred international monitors from entering the country. Many Russian people trust Putin because their lives have improved under his Presidency, but they deserve free choice and a competitive system. Instead, Putin is building a system that...
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...used to illuminate terrain, but not against individuals), they were forced to modify their position a year later when a military magazine revealed that troops had used it to “flush out” insurgents. And, of course, the estimated death tolls were extraordinary: According to Iraqi NGOs and medical workers, up to 6,000 Iraqis perished, again mostly civilians...