The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

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There is not a technology with no footprint, with no environmental consequence.

FORBES: David Ratcliffe

We should be training the young men and women who have been displaced as a consequence of Katrina to provide basic services like environmental cleanup and construction work.

NPR: Sen. Barack Obama on Poverty and Katrina

Such is the consequence for others (perhaps until now considered as environmental soft furnishings in some way - the bystander, the servant, the uncomplaining numpty) that smoking in the UK and the western world is on the wane.

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