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The
Environment And What It Has Become
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IS IT
WORTH IT?
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Think about how much humans have destroyed so that we are able to develop and advance. To get to the stage we are at today, humans had to push everything else out of the way to get to the top of the food chain. What we have now are tall buildings that stand where great grassland and forests used to. Heres my question. Was it worth it? A recent report (see related links) published analysing London’s ‘Low Carbon and Environmental Goods and Services Sector’, commissioned by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, has revealed the sector is worth approximately £25.4bn to London’s economy, and has grown by more than 5 per cent over each of the last two years.
“ALL THAT IS VALUABLE IN HUMA SOCIETY DEPENDS UPON THE OPPORTUNITY FO
DEVELOPMENT”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Air polution u 2012
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The death rate due to an increase in polution is on the rise. The City of London remained the worst local authority area in the country with 8.94 per cent of total deaths attributable to dangerous airborne gases. The Mayor welcomed the findings in the report yesterday evening as he addressed an audience of international Mayors at the C40 & Siemens Climate
Leadership Awards at the Crystal building in the Royal Docks. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson said: “This report proves that cities taking climate action can expect economic growth. London is becoming the ‘one-stop shop’ for low carbon and environmental services – providing the goods, skills and financing every city needs to make its transition to a low carbon, resource efficient economy.”
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We Are T he Creat When you think about most of the things we will see on a day-to-day basis you can usually stem it back to something that humans have created. Humans are by far the most advanced ace that lives on this planet and sometimes i wonder what the world wourl look like if humans never existed. Without us, the world would be an entirly different place.
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sub-sector continues to grow our city is also consolidating its strength in other significant areas of the green economy, such as renewable energies and low carbon building technologies. These will equip London to be at the forefront of growing global markets in the battle to reduce our carbon emissions and Matthew Pencharz, make our cities more the Mayor’s Senior Adviser on Environment resilient in the face of climate change. “ & Energy said: “As our carbon finance We as a species have been developing for thousands of years, continuing to invent and innovate. A generic human nature is to concur and control. Because of this, so many habitats have been destroyed by our “progression” and “improvement”.
“Progres
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An Editorial
So AMAZE
By Laurence Calvert