Over the past two decades, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent it. ... "Go to the parking lot of the nearest suburban supermarket and look around: the only conclusion you can draw is that to reach the grocery, people must drive through three or four raging rivers and up the side of a trackless canyon" (p.593). ...

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Side affects caused from our growing population and increasing technology has contributed and will continue to contribute to the degradation of our shared natural environment. ... Other options such as hydropower and nuclear power can be used to cut back on carbon emissions, but their side effects are harmful as well. When a river is dammed fish cannot migrate, and years of sedimentation render the dam useless in the future. ... Run off from parking lots and other paved areas should be treated just as sewage is. ... To make recycling available, laws should be passed which prohibit excess du...

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The application of this technology to other crops is currently being studied. ... The main sources of this are: Residues from sugar plants and from other sugar industries, residues from confined livestock, residues from coffee harvest, residues from other biomass processing industries, and urban wastes. ... Although Cuba does not have many large rivers, it has many small ones that are well suited for microhydro generators. ... These factors are somewhat low due to the seasonal fluxations of the rivers, as well as required irrigation use of some waterways at certain times of the year. ......

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If research in clean renewable energy is stretched it will provide cheap almost free energy, not exhaust natural resources, and make us more independent of others or foreign oil from any direct or indirect use of clean renewable energy. ... If global warming is actually occurring then clean renewable energy slows it down a lot, and if global warming is just a myth, advancements in clean renewable energy will still save money, resources, and reduce our dependence on others. ... It might not seem that being less dependent on others can save you money, but for Peter Skyllberg it would have. ......

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