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    Carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina is not as bad. During the year of 1887 through 2006, the gas, solid, and liquid used is very low at the beginning of the year until 1922 where they start to increase throughout the years. Solid doesn’t have a major increase at all through the years. This means that in Argentina the people often, do not burn wood or coal as much. According to the data, In 1960 Argentina start emitting carbon dioxide. When comparing Argentina’s carbon dioxide to other…

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    so much stuff about tons of sports. Basketball is my favorite. Been playing since pre-k. Love being a Stratford Lady Elk. Having people look up to you while you being a lady elks is so much exciting. Doing all these sports help me to become a better person and having responsibility to do stuff. For college…

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    expenses food and other goods and services. The first website I dove into was nature.org which gave me an estimated yearly CO2 emission of 25 metric tons of CO2 which was the highest the second, website was carbonfootprint.com and it gave me an estimated 14 metric tons of CO2 and finally was terrapass.com which gave me the lowest score of 11 metric tons of CO2 a year; there is a drastic difference in the numbers given I suspect it has something to do with how many activities were measured and…

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    EXPANSION AND IMPORTANCE OF THE BRITISH STEEL INDUSTRY AND TRADE DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Introduction In the paper it will be explained the importance of the steel as a commodity throughout the latter part of the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution in Britain, as well as the impact of the production and its trade, exposing political, economic and social aspects that were directly affected by the technological development of Britain in matter of steel. The steel, according to…

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    globalization brings. For example, when China can make forty tons of shoes per year and the US can make sixteen tons, it makes more sense for China to be making shoes, but especially when the US can make forty tons of silverware while China can only make sixteen tons. In this example, the US can make what it is most efficient at (silverware) and China can make what it is most efficient at (shoes) and everyone benefits from the abundance. There are eighty tons of shoes and silverware available…

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    The Time When a Railroad Changed History Where would our world be today if the Transcontinental Railroad simply didn’t exist? The Railroad impacted us in many ways, but I believe that we were impacted most economically. The Transcontinental Railroad impacted the United States Economically because, it transformed towns to boosting economic hotspots, lowered the general cost for shipping across hefty distances, and increased revenue from exports and imports dramatically. The railroad…

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    Gmo Benefits

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    The quantity of insecticides used to control bollworm reduced by 96% from 5,748 metric tons of active ingredients in 2001 to as low as 222 metric tons of active ingredients in 2011.Herbicide tolerant crops have facilitated the continued expansion of conservation tillage, especially no-till cultivation system, in the USA. The adoption of conservation and no-till cultivation practices saved nearly 1 billion tons of soil per year. Bigger yields to create more efficient use of land, less uses of…

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     Technologic: Bessemer process (Machines produced) The Bessemer process was patented by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1855. This patent was for the decarbonization process, utilizing a blast of air. (About.com, 2015) This process was the first cheap industrial mass production procedure for making steel from pig iron and is used to remove the impurities from the iron by oxidation. The process was made in a Bessemer converter which was a large ovoid steel container lined with clay…

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    can give you hypothermia. It is also really hard to travel through. This makes it hard because they had to carry tons of goods across the wet, cold terrain. As I can tell from the pictures, the mountains and ground is covered with thick, heavy snow. Another thing that makes Alaska’s geography hard to explore is the mountains. The mountains are hard to get over or around while carrying tons of goods. As I can tell from the text,…

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    would the food we eat here be transported the thousand miles from where it is produced? Rice, tomatoes, grapes, garlic, and tons of other foods and ingredients we consume daily here in California could come tens of thousands of miles away, from places like China, Chile, Netherlands, Thailand, etc.. All this transporting of food does have downsides though, as it causes tons and tons of pollution as it travels halfway across the world, through means of airplanes, ships, trucks, and other modes of…

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