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...years ago, Lake Erie, one of the largest lakes in the world, was also among the most polluted. Industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan dumped waste into the water as fast as was necessary to keep their industrial operations working. Lake Erie reached a point where it could hardly support a population of fish. The companies involved were not being malicious as much as they were being brazenly capitalistic. Some of the CEO's who were the heads of the largest polluters may have even been fishermen. They desire to make money trumped their personal feelings. (Read: "Comeback...
...order to change the environmentally dangerous practices of businesses which are under financial stress the government will need to provide the same kind of financial support it is already giving to other industries under the new stimulus program. There is a benefit to getting capital to a company that helps build systems to distribute the energy from wind turbines or change their facilities into locations that use solar power. If the government wants to help companies change businesses so that they pollute less, the fastest way to do it is to invest government money to finance the process. That would...
...Search Why were so many jobs lost? mainly because Halle's local businesses had been rendered uncompetitive by the currency swap and wage increases. That meant economic growth in the east often relied on direct government support, in the form of infrastructure projects, tax breaks for individual investors, direct transfer payments of social benefits for pensioners and the unemployed, and state subsidies for corporate investments...
...AGRA also has its critics - those who support a revolution in an entirely different shade of green. For them, the fact that African farming hasn't changed in over a century is a feature, not a bug. It provides an opportunity to replace industrial farming with organic practices that can be just as productive, but far more sustainable. At the St. Jude Family project in southern Uganda, double-decker animal pens open onto corn, cabbage, bananas and crawling green beans. The earth is contoured to reduce runoff and erosion. Spring onions serve as natural pest control. Legumes fix nitrogen...
...five years; rice tripled in only five months. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called rising food and oil prices a "man-made catastrophe" that had the potential to quickly erase years of progress in overcoming poverty. Pundits dusted off Malthusian theories that the planet was physically unable to support the burgeoning appetites of an increasingly wealthy global population...