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...already have a full-occupancy planet," says Noel Brown, North American director of the U.N. Environment Program. Today 80% of deforestation results from population growth. If the numbers keep rising until 2050, the U.N. estimates, an additional 5.9 million sq km (2.3 million sq. mi.) of land will have to be turned over to farming, roads and urban uses. This is almost equivalent to the total size of protected natural areas on earth today. Most good agricultural land is already under plow, and each year desertification, improper irrigation and overuse take millions of acres out of production. Farms may increase...
...SINGLE LETTER written by Noel Ignatiev has developed into a campus-wide controversy. Iganatiev, a non-resident tutor in Dunster House, wrote to the manager of the Dunster dining hall to protest the University's purchase of a toaster oven to used for kosher foods only...
...drive for protection of free expression, the staff ignores what really is at issue in the debate over Noel Ignatiev, the Liems and the kosher toaster...
...Noel Ignatiev's letter to the dining services and personal character have become tangled up with firing and with issues of free speech. Indeed, Schrag claims that Ignatiev's original letter is no longer even relevant to the debate...
...Noel is not the issue at all," says Schrag. "Anything he has done in his life, anything he has said, not that he has anything to be ashamed of--that is not the issue. That is just way off base...