Tag: united states
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The OneNYC 2050 and Beef Reduction
New York City, the city that never sleeps, is not sleeping on climate change or global warming. On April 22nd, 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an ambitious $14 billon plan to fight climate change and global warming. The plan is to reach complete carbon neutrality by 2050 [1]. One of the ways the OneNYC 2050 plans…
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Plastic Bags… to Ban or Not to Ban? That is the Question.
I visited St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, back in October, and went grocery shopping, just like I did before I moved away in 2017. I got to the cashier, paid for all of my groceries and she asked me if I wanted to purchase a reusable bag. Annoyed, I said no, thinking, “why should I…
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Nature Versus Nurture, Why Not Nurture Nature? The Argument for Extending Rights to Nature
Since its inception, the legal field has had an anthropocentric, or human centered, focus of legal rights. Even when a nature-based case come to a court the judge still views the issue in how it will impact humans and not nature itself. Nature has been considered to have property rights in that as long as…
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Here, Kitty, Kitty…
Florida, USA is home to a few beautiful big cats, but one of those cats is on the precipice of extinction. The Florida panther is the last remaining puma in the Eastern Hemisphere, it is also the most endangered mammal in the Eastern Hemisphere.[1] The panther was first listed as an endangered species in 1967,…
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