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    The desalination technology has been available for decades and has helped arid regions of the globe such as the Middle East and the Caribbean. However, climate change is strongly impacting the amount of rainfalls and severe droughts are becoming a reality to places that didn’t have to face water scarcity before. So, in order to be able to maintain water supply to people, some countries are adopting desalination plants as an alternative to deal with this new scenario. Currently…

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    values. The rice gene Osymb4, which is a transcription factor was added to the tomatoes’ DNA, to increase its drought tolerance An estimated 8.67 million Ethiopians are at immediate risk of food shortages due to drought stricken land UNICEF estimates that 1.4 million of those at risk are children under the age of five, and this is due to 80% of the crops being drought effected If drought resilient crops were released commercially, it would save millions of lives by increasing food supply and…

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    The dwindling of manufacturing in India was part and parcel of the process of Indian economic decline. In the first half of the 18th Century, India was a global manufacturing power house and it’s textiles were worn around the world, worn around Asia, they were exported to Europe, worn by American slaves and they were sent to Africa. Indian agriculture had a avery high productivity and Indian Textile manufacturer had a relatively very high productivity as per the global standards of the time.…

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    Tim Gundrum

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    fertilizer science and had a job for a custom farm that did just that Call to Adventure/start with the conflict: One lazy cool spring morning Tim Was Watching the news. The weatherman was scary right when he said that this year was going to be a drought. Believing this was easy, The farmers almanac said so, The winter did not have much snow, and there was very dry soil that he took note…

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    Working Outline Purpose: Informative Speech Specific Purpose: Awareness of the threat of global warming Introduction: I. In the words of Leonardo DiCaprio after receiving his Oscar, “Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” II. While many of us have heard about global warming, we do not view it significantly important as we all should. Global warming is defined…

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    First, as stated previously, droughts and heat waves would cause the amount of resources to decline. Since the amount of resources would become more limited, then the price of them would increase because there would be more of a demand for them. If the price went up then people who are…

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    Harding 1 Manmade Climate Change is Real Seas and Lakes dry up. The international community is ravaged by droughts. Extreme cases of heat waves, animal extinction, rising coastal waters, earthquakes and deforestation have strained the Earths natural balance. “How could this happen” one may ask. The answer is surprisingly simple. It’s the greed and ignorance of mankind. Eighty-two countries out of a hundred and forty eight countries that lie within the original forest zone have lost all their…

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    Modern biotechnology is truly astonishing; the technology has extended our carrying capacity far beyond our limits by eliminating devastating diseases, provided life saving pharmaceuticals, as well as solutions for agriculture sustainability for a population expecting to reach 9.5 billion individuals by 2050. Agriculture sustainability is a global concern, which affects each organism on this planet. Hence, as an advanced society we must invest on our current technologies to provide food…

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    “I believe that humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.” This quote was said by Leonardo DiCaprio, he explained that many people act towards climate change like it’s something that many people don’t act upon because many can’t imagine this actually happening to them. Many people around the world have different preferences on what climate…

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    In some of the civilizations religion does not play a major role in their government has seen in the Egyptians. However most governments are influenced by religion for example the Hebrews and the Mayan. Governments influenced by religion have debates on how something is done because of how different people interpret writings or the religion. If a Government not influenced by religion does not have the same effect for the reason of there is one person that is setting the rules and it's the…

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