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    Political action can change laws and regulations that relate to climate change‚ such as tax incentives‚ greenhouse gas emissions limits or establishing a regulatory framework within which carbon trading markets can operate. Political action can also gain media and public attention to climate change. Political action from the community‚ however‚ is often challenged by interests within the fossil-fuel industry.[1][2] Some climate change sceptic groups are independent of the fossil-fuel industry‚ such

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    How Values Affect Decisions in Personal and Professional Life Shaundrea Sager University of Phoenix Abstract Many people have a set of core values‚ either personal‚ organizational‚ or cultural‚ that help guide his or her life‚ and that assist him or her in making decisions in their everyday existence. Most of my decisions are based on how they will affect my family‚ me‚ and my career. My family is the key factor in any decision I make. I have to consider what influence my

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    Civil disobedience can positively impact a free society in multiple ways. In a free society‚ citizens are able to speak‚ act and think as they please. However‚ when people disagree with an existing law‚ protests‚ riots‚ and lawlessness may occur. These often turn violent‚ and in result‚ citizens or officers are harmed. America has seen many of these recently due to an outrage in the election of Donald J. Trump. Many anti-Trump protests have broke out all over the country‚ and most of these have turned

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    1. Explain how human activities can cause an imbalance in biogeochemical cycling and lead to problems such as cultural eutrophication and kill fish. biogeochemical cycles are the pathway that chemicals cycle within the ecosystems involving both living and non-living things. Human activities have a direct impact and can cause an imbalance of these chemicals. A few examples of this would be mining and burning fossil fuels‚ this would increase the amount of chemical elements removed from the reservoirs

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    Sustainability‚ in a broad sense‚ is the capacity of maintaining a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context‚ sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes‚ functions‚ biodiversity and productivity into the future. Sustainability has become a complex term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth‚ particularly the many different levels of biological

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    Economic Sustainability The business of staying in business Deborah Doane & Alex MacGillivray New Economics Foundation March 2001 Executive Summary Although sustainability is now generally understood to be a combination of environmental‚ social and economic performance‚ this report finds that economic sustainability is the most elusive component of the “triple bottom line” approach. There is not even universal consensus that businesses should be economically sustainable‚

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    2018 History Paper 3 The French Revolution‚ Industrialization‚ and Romantic Nationalism all set Europe apart from other nations in some way. Each movement affected Europe economically‚ politically‚ and socially. The French Revolution had many affects economically. Even before the French Revolution‚ the economic condition in France was poor. The seven years of War of Louis XV contributed to the poor economic state. The fall of Bastille in 1789 also affected the economic crisis. The luxury markets

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    The Great Awakening impacted the people in the 13 American colonies. Settlers were encouraged to disregard sectarian differences which brought religious‚ political‚ and cultural unity among the colonies. However‚ some churches divided into factions based on class ranks; for instance‚ “Old Sides” among Presbyterians and “Old Lights” among Congregationalist. Revivalism later resounded as “New Sides” and “Old Lights”. This event undermined traditional views of authority which contributed to the development

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    Executive summary More corporations tend to apply sustainability into their business operations. Woolworths as an Australian retail company‚ also add more emphasis on sustainable development. This report shows the reason why Woolworths take sustainable strategies in global business context for further development in the future. Firstly‚ the report offers a brief description for the background of Woolworths and presents the definition for sustainability. With the development of globalization‚ environmental

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    angles that helps people in some way that how to love. Some people have their pets at home‚ so they make strong relationship with them. Looking from another angle of thought‚ animals help human beings by sacrifice their life. In the human body‚ there are sudden changes like how a baby starts his growth in a pregnant woman? What is happening inside the human body? How people see‚ hear‚ smell and then die? How to treat some surgeries. So‚ the question here is how doctors or scientists know about some

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