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...burn farming still continues, as does the hunting of lemurs. "We have yet to overcome some deeply ingrained cultural habits," explains Vololoniaina Jeannoda, a researcher at the University of Antananarivo's Botanical Laboratory. "But people, especially the young, are starting to accept that we can't keep up this reckless exploitation of our heritage." Yet even as the country seeks to mend its ways, the law of unintended consequences intervenes. RBG's Dransfield notes that demand for Malagasy lobsters means more palms are chopped down to make lobster pots. Improved rice yields promised to ease the pressure to expand paddies...
...This is reckless, insane and criminal to [ignore global warming],” Gore said. “At this current rate, the Everglades and Florida Keys will disappear...
...with a state that possesses nuclear weapons and a military of over 1.2 million soldiers is a grisly option; military intervention in North Korea should be avoided at almost any cost. Yet to do nothing while North Korea transforms itself into a nuclear Wal-Mart would be equally reckless. So would bribing the regime into disarmament with promises of economic aid—an idea the administration is now openly entertaining, and which would teach Kim and other unsavory dictators that nuclear saber-rattling pays...
...does not have a stellar track record when it comes to telling the whole truth, especially when it gets in his way; indeed, his manipulation of the facts when it came to Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” points to an almost reckless disregard for the real truth. We believe that this time around, just like before, deception, not cooperation is on the president’s mind...
...Stephen Hadley, shown later in the program, read "Please update and resubmit." On 60 Minutes, Clarke went further, saying that Bush's deputies never showed the President the joint-agency review, because "I don't think he sees memos that he wouldn't like the answer." This is pure, reckless speculation. Contrast that with the more straightforward account in Against All Enemies: after his team found no evidence of Iraqi involvement, Clarke writes that "a memorandum to that effect was sent up to the President, and there was never any indication that it reached...