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    UN warns biodiversity loss poses greater business risk than climate change?

    To get an explanation of what those costs are, read the UN report instead of a news story about the report. Costs get ignored by an economic system when there is no mechanism whereby those costs can change the behavior of the economic system. Cigarette smoking has incurred vast healthcare costs...
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    Planning chief John Saunders in charge of 400 billion has shares in

    Have you looked at the previous affiliations and present stockholdings of the U.S. Department of Energy officials? The overwhelming majority have major ties to the fossil fuel industry. That type of industry interest is endemic in ALL government agencies, primarily because that is where the...
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    Adaptation and Mitigation of climate change, do I understand the terms properly?

    Your definitions of adaptation as after-the-fact measures and mitigation as preventive seems fine to me. I don't see though, why the exclusion of the other course should be part of the definition. Except in the sense that if we don't mitigate we'll dang well have to adapt, won't we? We'll need...
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    I want to get a job in an animal/wildlife sanctuary?

    A degree in Environmental Geography will show that you have the persistence to get a college degree, but won't convey any knowlege that is directly applicable to working in a sanctuary. A lot of the jobs around a sanctuary are going to be upkeep, not scientific, so willingness to work is going...
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    i want to work for fish & wildlife conservation, how do i start?

    Decide what area you want to get involved in. Do you want to deal with the laws, inform the people, work in the outdoors, heal injured wildlife, study the ecology - what? If you're not sure, pick an area to volunteer in and ask a lot of questions. If you don't like the first one, try something...
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