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Do hot climates make people more violent?
2016-07-07 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Two researchers argue that climate is the primary driver of aggressionThey say there's a "general trend" between proximity to the equator and violence One of the uncomfortable facts of life is that some countries - and within the U.S., some states - are more violent than others. Figuring out what makes societies and communities more violent is a big-time quest for social scientists, since if you know what leads to killing, you'll have a better shot at defusing it. Drawing on a host of studies,...
How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change?
2015-07-09 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Per Espen Stoknes, a Norwegian psychologist and economist, has been doing a lot of thinking about a question that has bedeviled climate scientists for years: Why have humans so far failed to deal with the looming threat posed by climate change? That question is the focus of his recent book, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, in which he analyzes what he calls the five psychological barriers that have made it difficult to deal realistically with the climate crisis....
Will geoengineering make people give up cutting their carbon footprint?
2014-11-17 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If you thought there was a machine that could magically remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bury it underground, would you be less likely to worry about reducing your own carbon footprint? The question is not entirely hypothetical. Geoengineering is the catch-all term for a suite of technologies that could one day be used to alter the Earths climate and combat global warming. Most of them are unlikely to ever see the light of day: they are considered too risky, too unpredictable, or...
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General Mills will make Go-Gurt for McDonald's Happy Meals. Will people buy it this time?
2014-05-20 15:28:26| Agriculture - Topix.net
Happy Meal boxes sit stacked next to the drive-thru window of a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Little Falls, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
In Ranch Management, People Make The Difference
2014-02-27 02:14:00| Beef
The managers job is to create an environment in which people want to excel and then provide the tools, training and freedom to do it. Strategic Planning For The Ranch read more
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