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Deforestation’s Impact Goes Beyond Destruction of The Environment

By Eliot Brockner | Published: July 24, 2009
Last night I attended an interesting panel discussion about the destruction of the Amazon at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in Manhattan featuring Bruce Babbitt, a retired governor of Arizona and former Secretary of the Interior and Andrew Revkin, a science reporter for the NYTimes. The conversation focused on development, the danger of reckless [...]
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The Growing Balloon

By Sebastian Chaskel | Published: March 26, 2008
The balloon effect is considered to be one of the greatest failings or challenges of supply-side counternarcotics policies. As authorities attempt to diminish cocaine production in a region, cocaine prices go up and people in other regions experience strong incentives to fill the market gap. Stopping cocaine production is therefore like trying to [...]
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