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39)Some sort of Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Day and the chests of countless Indians swell with pride at the thought of our huge diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the has become. A republican kind of government is not merely one out of which the head of status is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic puts on the idea that sovereignty resides inside the people and that the will of the people as expressed through their representatives is supreme. What exactly has however been important to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion of inclusiveness. In this respect the stories that have been coming out of India recently tell a tale that is relaxing to the bones a tale that leaves behind a stench that no amount of sloganeering with regards to Swachh Bharat or even one thing more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. When inclusiveness is the touchstone of your Republic what is characteristic
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Video Advertorials On Finance Digest Website

Video Advertorials on Finance Blogs is just one way of getting the word out about your product or service. If done well, it can become viral, driving more people to your sales page. This form of advertorial is referred to as a "Vlog". The vlog will generally cover the technical aspects of the product or service, giving potential customers a clear insight into what is being offered. To use video adverts on finance sites, you will need to get yourself a (free) vlog site. There are several free vlog sites online, which you can use. Just Google 'vlog' and your chosen name and you should be able to find dozens of vlog sites that will host your adverts. Just upload the adverts, which should be under the file name 'video'. You may need to adjust your settings so that they are viewable in all browsers, but this shouldn't be a problem. Once you have uploaded your video adverts, you will need to write a brief description. The description should not only give the ben
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Deforestation

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Deforestation , clearance , clearcutting or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests. About 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests. Between 15 - 18 million hectares of forest, an area the size of Belgium are destroyed every year, on average 2,400 trees are cut down each minute. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines deforestation as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). “Deforestation” and “forest area net change” are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period. Net change, therefore, can be positive or negative, depending on whether gains exceed losses, or vice versa. Agricultural expans
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Causes

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According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, the overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture. Subsistence farming is responsible for 48% of deforestation; commercial agriculture is responsible for 32%; logging is responsible for 14%, and fuel wood removals make up 5%. Experts do not agree on whether industrial logging is an important contributor to global deforestation. Some argue that poor people are more likely to clear forest because they have no alternatives, others that the poor lack the ability to pay for the materials and labour needed to clear forest. One study found that population increases due to high fertility rates were a primary driver of tropical deforestation in only 8% of cases. Other causes of contemporary deforestation may include corruption of government institutions, the inequitable distribution of wealth and power, population growth and overpopulation, and urbanization. Globalization is often viewed as
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Environmental effects

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Atmospheric Deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography. Deforestation is a contributor to global warming, and is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect. Tropical deforestation is responsible for approximately 20% of world greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. But recent calculations suggest that carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (excluding peatland emissions) contribute about 12% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with a range from 6% to 17%. Deforestation causes carbon dioxide to linger in the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide accrues, it produces a layer in the atmosphere that traps radiation from the sun. The radiation converts to heat which causes global warming, which is better known as the greenhouse effect. Plants rem
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Health effects

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Public health context The degradation and loss of forests disrupts nature's balance. Indeed, deforestation eliminates a great number of species of plants and animals which also often results in an increase in disease, and exposure of people to zoonotic diseases. Deforestation can also create a path for non-native species to flourish such as certain types of snails, which have been correlated with an increase in schistosomiasis cases. Forest-associated diseases include malaria, Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis), African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, HIV and Ebola. The majority of new infectious diseases affecting humans, including the SARS-CoV2 virus that caused the current COVID-19 pandemic, are zoonotic and their emergence may be linked to habitat loss due to forest area change and the expansion of human populations into forest areas, which both increase human exposure to wildlife. Deforestation is occurring all over the wo
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Economic impact

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This section needs to be updated . The reason given is: cites are very old. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( June 2020 ) According to the World Economic Forum, half of the global GDP is strongly or moderately dependent on nature. For every dollar spent on nature restoration, there is a profit of at least 9 dollars. Example of this link is the COVID-19 pandemic, which is linked to nature destruction and caused severe economic damage. Damage to forests and other aspects of nature could halve living standards for the world's poor and reduce global GDP by about 7% by 2050, a report concluded at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Bonn in 2008. Historically, utilization of forest products, including timber and fuel wood, has played a key role in human societies, comparable to the roles of water and cultivable land. Today, developed countries continue to utilize timber for building houses, and wood pulp for paper.
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