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commonedge.org
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We like to imagine that there's a clean border between technology and nature. Out there are trees, rivers, fungi, and weather; in here are laptops, data centres, and motorways. One is wild and ancient, the other human and new. It's a neat, precise division - and completely artificial. Humans
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Humans are by nature conservative in the sense that we are most comfortable when our environment is stable. Change is frequently viewed as negative. One type of environment that is of conservation concern to European naturalists is the cultural landscape, particularly small wood pastures with scattered or bordering deciduous brush or trees, which are no...
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Growing up in a city-nation-state, in a middle-class, racially-privileged family, I never thought anything was wrong. Food obviously came from the supermarket, smothered in plastic packaging (unless one was willing to venture into the smelly wet markets for fresh produce), getting around and going to places meant taking the car, or bus/MRT (Mass Rapid Transit),
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Pesticides are a major driver of insect decline. The current authorisation system is insufficient and does not protect non-target species. This harms agriculture, for it depends on pollinators and organisms that take care of soil fertility. In the PoshBee study, a group of scientists has monitored the effects of pesticides on bumblebee colonies, a better indicator than the
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