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Centuries of dumping waste -- sewage, garbage, chemicals, plastics, drugs -- has now morphed into industrial-scale fishing and accelerating resource extraction.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Changing Climate: Deep Oceans Off Alaska Face Existential Threat AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Centuries of dumping waste -- sewage, garbage, chemicals, plastics, drugs -- has now morphed into industrial-scale fishing and accelerating resource extraction.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Changing Climate: Deep Oceans Off Alaska Face Existential Threat AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Add to the list of likely losers: conservation interests, local and organic food advocates, defenders of down-and-out Americans who depend on food stamps and just about anyone else who'd like the farm bill to do more than bankroll industrial-scale commodity farming -- GMOs, pesticides and all.
Ken Cook: The Food Movement Must Fight a "Secret Farm Bill" Ken Cook 2011
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Traditional bluefin fisheries used to be sustainable, but loosely regulated industrial-scale fishing changed everything for this amazing fish.
Lee Crockett: Overfishing 101: Creative Ways to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Lee Crockett 2011
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Add to the list of likely losers: conservation interests, local and organic food advocates, defenders of down-and-out Americans who depend on food stamps and just about anyone else who'd like the farm bill to do more than bankroll industrial-scale commodity farming -- GMOs, pesticides and all.
Ken Cook: The Food Movement Must Fight a "Secret Farm Bill" Ken Cook 2011
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But the new super-high-density approach, which was developed in Spain more than a decade ago, has now led to the creation of industrial-scale olive farms.
Family Grows Olives on Industrial Scale Ben Worthen 2011
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The report is titled Losing Ground, and it shows in stark terms what industrial-scale crop production is doing to our soil and water in the Corn Belt.
Donald Carr: Watching the Future Wash Away Donald Carr 2011
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The first industrial-scale carbon capture and storage CCS plant in the U.S. broke ground in Illinois, with the aim of capturing emissions from a large corn ethanol plant.
Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Tar Sands Pipeline Gets Green Light in Environmental Review Mason Inman 2011
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But the Allen Institute remains distinct in conducting industrial-scale big science that is fundamentally collaborative.
Why We Chose 'Open Science' Paul Allen 2011
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Add to the list of likely losers: conservation interests, local and organic food advocates, defenders of down-and-out Americans who depend on food stamps and just about anyone else who'd like the farm bill to do more than bankroll industrial-scale commodity farming -- GMOs, pesticides and all.
Ken Cook: The Food Movement Must Fight a "Secret Farm Bill" Ken Cook 2011
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