In history, cities and towns understood that their present urban lifestyle, in particular, their patterns of division labor and functions, land-use, transport, industrial production, agriculture, consumption, and leisure activities, and hence their standard of living, made them essentially responsible for many environmental problems humankind was facing. ... According to Descartes, the world was viewed as a machine in ancient times. ... Those who are educated use the idea that "the world is a machine" and fix problems by advancing technology. ...

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There are new medications and machines that help people live longer lives. ... This policy restricts urban married couples to have only child with very few exceptions: When the first child of the Chinese is having a birth defect, in the situation where there is remarriage of new couple, only the new partner of the couple has no child, if both of the couple are one child themselves (BBC, 2007). ...

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Nature of State Intervention In general it can be said that the Bangladesh state is a soft state, which caters to diverse, fragmented and often contradictory interests e.g. international capital, donor government, the rural rich, the urban middle class, and certain state functionaries e.g. the army, the police force, bureaucracy etc. ... Practically however, apart from a few urban sectors,the picture which emerges is quite different. ...

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