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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1"><b>Scientific American - ?Jan
8, 2016?</b><br>
<b>Global Warming Helped Exacerbate Biggest Year Ever for US
Wildfires</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Scientific American</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">"We do see a climate change
signal in the fire seasons we're having," said Jennifer Jones, a
public affairs specialist with the Forest Service's office of fire and
aviation management.</font></div>
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>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-helped-exac<span
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<b>Twin Falls Times-News - ?Dec 31, 2015?<br>
Forests Face More Fire, Insects, Disease as Climate
Warms</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Twin Falls Times-News</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Root rot, which has taken advantage
of the increasing dominance of species like grand fir and Douglas fir,
is also likely to thrive as the climate warms. Low-elevation Ponderosa
pine forests could give way to grasslands, and high-elevation species
like ...</font></div>
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>http://magicvalley.com/news/local/forests-face-more-fire-insects-dis<span
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1"><b>Toronto Stare - ?39 minutes
ago?</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1"><b>Parks Canada firefighting funds
almost gone after 2015's 122 wildfires</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Toronto Star</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Wildfires scorched
a record amount of Canada's national parks last year - the latest
in a number of long, hot summers that have almost entirely depleted
Parks Canada's firefighting reserve. "We had a very busy fire
year," said director of fire management Jeff Weir. "We had more
wildfires than normal and those fires burned larger areas than
normal."</font></div>
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>http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/10/parks-canada-firefight<span
></span>ing-funds-almost-gone-after-2015s-122-wildfires.html</font></div
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"Americans took on tons of debt to support a lifestyle which their
incomes did not justify - an extra $3 trillion, by my
calculations."<br>
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Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week, April 20,
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"We have only one planet and the time has come to transform our
present lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to halt the
degradation of the Earth's natural capital ..."<br>
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>From the Executive Summary, WWF: <i> China Ecological Footprint:
Report 2012 : Consumption, production, and
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Because the
decimating factor of economic growth eliminates welfare factors for
virtually all imperiled species via the principle of competitive
exclusion, economic growth may be classified as the limiting factor
for wildlife conservation. The wildlife profession has been virtually
silent about this limiting factor, suggesting that the profession has
been laboring in futility."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Brian Czech.
Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation.<i>
Wildlife Society Bulletin</i> 2000, 28(1):4-15<br>
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