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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Ignorance of
remote causes disposeth men to attribute all events to the causes
immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes they
perceive."<br>
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Attributed to Thomas Hobbes<br>
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"Making connections is the essence of scientific progress."<br>
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Chris Quigg, "Aesthetic Science,"<br>
<i>Scientific American,</i> April 1999<br>
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"The structural relations within and between human societies and
their environments form the most complex systems known to
science."<br>
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Charles D. Laughlin and Ivan Brady, editors,<br>
<i>Extinction and Survival in Human Populations<br>
</i>Columbia University Press, 1978<br>
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</i>"We are living on the surface of this planet, with only the
resources of this planet, with the fertility of its soil, with its
mineral wealth, and with its climate and atmosphere. It has always
been the task of mankind to find the right answer to the problem these
conditions set us, and even today we cannot think that we have found a
sufficient answer."<br>
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Alfred Adler (1870 -1937), quoted in<i> The Individual Psychology of
Alfred Adler,<br>
</i>Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacker, editors<br>
Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row Publishers, 1956<br>
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"Teleconnections can be defined as linkages between climate
anomalies at some distance from each other. The large distances in
space and the differences in timing between these anomalous events
make it difficult for one to believe that one event (El Nino or La
Nina) could possibly have influence on the other (e.g. drought in
southern Africa or hurricanes in the tropical Atlantic). Nevertheless,
physical and statistical research has shown that such linkages do
exist."<br>
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Michael Glantz.<i> Currents of Change : Impacts of El Nino and La Nina
on Climate and Society</i>. Cambridge University Press, 2001<br>
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"We linked 25,000 Animalia species threat records from the
International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List to more than
15,000 commodities produced in 187 countries and evaluated more than 5
billion supply chains in terms of their biodiversity impacts.
Excluding invasive species, we found that 30% of global species
threats are due to international trade. In many developed countries,
the consumption of imported coffee, tea, sugar, textiles, fish and
other manufactured items causes a biodiversity footprint that is
larger abroad than at home."<br>
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M. Lenzen, D. Moran, K. Kanemoto, B. Foran, L. Lobefaro & A.
Geschke.International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing
nations.<i> Nature </i> 7 June 2012 doi:10.1038/nature11145<br>
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