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This article involves the usage of economics in the degradation of the environment and how it can be applied to help save the environment.

This article talks about how environmental damaging are and should be taken in account in economics.

I think this article was interesting as it talks about one proposal of government to stop pollution

This article discusses the scarcity of fresh water as the population grows and the availability of fresh water decreases. This article focuses on the scarcity of our land resources as the population grows since everyone wants water and what Suez Environment is doing to slow down the process. This article relates to the topic of infinite wants that we discussed and how people will always want water.

This article is about a discovery of water on moon and how it could be used by astronauts. in one word is a great discovery in addition in this article is also said how this water discovered was discovered

While the economic definition of 'scarcity' may seem obscure to this particular scenario, on closer inspection we find that the definition of 'unlimited needs/wants but limited resources' can indeed be applied to the scarcity of jobs as a result of the recession. The 'want' in this case is labour seeking employment and the limited resource is the relative liquidity of business. While this article is generally about foreclosure and its effect on the economy, I feel it demonstrates a highly relevant application of economic scarcity in the current environment.

I totally agree with you and the website. Jobs are also a scarcity problem. Because resources cannot be limited (some maybe not), but jobs is definitively limited, due to the fact, there are not enough jobs for everyone. Day by day, people are suffering more to find jobs, due to the amount of people trying to get them. Popularity in the world is increasing greatly, jobs is not so much; therefore, jobs is a scarce "good".

Jobs are the main scarcity problem in my country and I think it's a huge problem for the world too. Like resources, there are limited amount of jobs for the people and sometimes adults stay jobless. As the world's population increases, number of unemplyed people increases too. When there was an economic crisis in the world, many poeple were fired from their jobs.

People are pushing for a bill that will force companies to think more on the green side of things, and consider the environment when making decisions.

There is a recent movement of an increase in people who use coal for heating. This would put pollution into the air, thereby carrying with it a negative externality.

Thanks for posting this Michael! It effectively removes the phrase "clean coal". There are quite a few articles about the environment this week!

this article talks about that in order to keep Galileo alive, EU member-states had to agree to fund the entire project from the public purse.