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Climate change effects on the UK

Posted by Jonathan Pearce on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, In : Global warming 
The independent:
 

Climate change: do you want the good news or the bad?

Britain faces more flooding and water shortages – but farmers may come out on top, according to a new global forecast

MICHAEL MCCARTHY Author Biography

 

 

TUESDAY 06 DECEMBER 2011 




 


Spain will be arid, with all of its agricultural land degraded. India will face a near-tripling of its flood risk. Virtually the whole population of Egypt will be hit with water shortages. But British ...


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What environmentalists are up against

Posted by Jonathan Pearce on Friday, December 2, 2011, In : Global warming 
Editorial from the Independent:


Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist of the mid-20th century, a scholar of human behaviour generally known for one particular imaginative insight into how people behave: his hierarchy of needs.

Sometimes depicted as a pyramid with several layers (pictured) and occasionally referred to as Maslow's hierarchy of values, this is a simple but convincing visualisation of human motives – from the basic, at the bottom, to the more rarefied, at the peak. And the ...


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