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Ojabo V

The tragedy of the high seas - 5 views

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    The article talks about one of the world's most tragic tragedy, which is "tragedy of the commons". This theory explores when a resource is available jointly, people often deplete these resources, rather than save them. To further support the theory, the article focuses mainly on "over-fishing" and how the ocean is a "common area", therefore anybody can choose to fish out there, and this leads to the problem of over-fishing and destroying the habitats of the high seas.
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    This article discuss that due to the melting of arctic ice and over exploitation of fish area known as dead zones are quickly spreading thereby deteriorating the 'common' high seas known to be economically beneficial to all.
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    This article talks about how our over dependence on the seas are affecting them and in turn affecting us. Since the seas are responsible for so much in human life, the deterioration of the seas could greatly affect different facets of human life such as climate among other things.
Anthony E

Debt burden is not the root cause of West Bengal's woes - 0 views

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    The article discusses how determinants of growth like state capacity, developmental expenditure, capital expenditure and doing business was not easy in West Bengal. The article also quotes statistics such as how the West Bengal was now slightly above the BIMARU states in terms of per capita SDP, the human development index was also slightly better than average, while the quality of higher education and infrastructure was poor.
Zachary C

damging the high seas - 0 views

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    In this article its talking about how differnt companies and governments are destroying our water sources and our fish supply. As people are ordering others to go build things in veries water sources around the world. which is slowly and at times quickly destroying them, which has led to a problem with our ability to gain resources from water sources. at that will only become even worse of a problem as time goes on.
Howard E

In Deep Water - 0 views

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    This article considers the impact on the ocean that we are causing by having is as a public good with public access.
Akar M

Fat tax would benefit Kiwis - study - Life & Style - NZ Herald News - 3 views

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    Article introduces a new way to fight obesity unhealthy food consumption ; by increasing the tax on fast food and sugary drinks and decreasing the tax of vegetables and fruits in order to encourage a healthy diet.
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    I think that this a great article in many ways. First of all, it shows how we can no look at economics in only one way and that nothing is actually certain because there are many determinants. One action can have exactly opposite results even. Secondly, I think that it is really interesting that a change would effect one group but not the other. I mean it is not actually "interesting" because it is a daily life that we can observe, but it was interesting to be reminded of that fact once more, related to what we have learned this week. Lastly, the strategy they have thought of to fight obesity really made sense to me. Nutrition is really important and it always seemed very irrational to me that all these junk food is more expensive than healthy food. It makes sense considering that different markets benefit from this situation, but still on something that relates to health, I believe that we should be more worried about society's benefit than companies benefits'. I believe that there may be exceptions to equilibrium, if it will benefit humanity.
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