27 Results for : pollute
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Truthiness Fever: How Lies and Propaganda are Poisoning Us and a Ten-Step Program for Recovery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min
This book focuses on truth, beliefs that best match empirical evidence. Truth contrasts with truthiness, beliefs supported primarily by emotions and feelings. When political satirist Steven Colbert celebrated the rise of "truthiness", he called attention to an important pathology in our body politic. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common and acceptable for public figures to boost whatever beliefs they feel will help their cause. Nowadays children mostly consume misleading and harmful information. We are poisoning their information environment as dangerously as sugary foods ruin nutrition and toxins pollute air, water, and soil. Societies sometimes organize to regulate or eliminate pollutants. Lead and mercury were used for centuries before they were largely outlawed. Over the last few decades, we began to limit smog-producing gases, acid-rain components, and asthma-inducing particulates in our air. Recently the entire world has been struggling with the fact that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to higher global temperatures that kill forests, wipe out glaciers, and inundate low-lying islands and coastal areas. These problems, and others, can't be solved unless our people understand the issues and wrestle with options. That requires operating on truth, not truthiness. However, society's most powerful players are addicted to lying and foment truthiness fever purposefully. Colbert highlighted a broad class of lying. Truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, or intellectual examination of facts. By allowing truthiness to trump truthfulness, we cede our right to intelligent debate and decision-making. The most powerful, emotional, resonant voices prevail in all contests when facts don't matter. This book seeks to amplify Colbert's observation to address the apparent plague of lying, a state of Truthiness Fever, whe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emmett Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001734/bk_acx0_001734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min
For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef. The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. In Defending Beef, Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for either the Earth or our own nutritional health. In fact, properly managed livestock play an essential role in maintaining grassland ecosystems by functioning as surrogates for herds of wild ruminants that once covered the globe. Hahn Niman argues that dispersed, grass-fed, small-scale farms can and should become the basis for American food production, replacing the factory farms that harm animals and the environment. The author - a longtime vegetarian - goes on to dispel popular myths about how eating beef is bad for our bodies. She methodically evaluates health claims made against beef, demonstrating that such claims have proven false. She shows how foods from cattle - milk and meat, particularly when raised entirely on grass - are healthful, extremely nutritious, and an irreplaceable part of the world’s food system. Grounded in empirical scientific data and with living examples from around the world, Defending Beef builds a comprehensive argument that cattle can help to build carbon-sequestering soils to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, help prevent desertification, and provide invaluable nutrition. Defending Beef is simultaneously a book about big ideas and the author’s own personal tale - she starts out as a skeptical vegetarian and eventually becomes an enthusiastic participant in environmentally sustainable ranching. While no single book can definitively answer t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolette Hahn Niman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/novl/000519/bk_novl_000519_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hydroponics: The Beginner's Guide to Building an Efficient Hydroponic System for Your Garden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
If gardening has always interested you and if growing plants provides you with a satisfaction that is second to none, it is high time that you upgrade yourself with the recent developments in the industry. It is time to make way for hydroponics.Wondering what hydroponics is?It is a subset of hydroculture that makes use of sand, gravel, or liquid with added nutrients to grow plants. So, did I forgot mentioning the use of soil? Well, no, I skipped it purposely. This is because hydroponics does not use soil to grow plants.Do you think that’s unbelievable?It actually is! Before you start thinking about how plants obtain the required nutrients which are essential for their growth, let me mention that all the required minerals and nutrients are provided to the plants in a water solvent.But there is more to this amazing process:It doesn’t pollute the soil with any fertilizers and pesticides (No points for guessing that because soil is not used, anyway).Hydroponics allows you to grow plants all year round, irrespective of the season. Don’t be surprised if you get to enjoy melons in winter!You can cultivate the crops both inside and outside.Hydroponics helps you use the water resources judiciously.It allows you to grow more plants in a given area. This is why hydroponics is considered to be the right fit for the ever-growing population.No weeding is required.And a lot more!Curious to know in-depth information about hydroponics? Rest assured, I have covered the varied nuances related to this process in detail inside this book.Inside, you will find details on:Basic principles of hydroponicsAll of the best hydroponically grown plants to start in your backyardWays how hydroponics differ from traditional soil gardeningWays how you can build your own hydroponic systemVarious types of hydroponic sy ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Landry Mires. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174883/bk_acx0_174883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min
Daniel Amen, MD, one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do - learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days! You probably run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep your body in great shape; you put on sunscreen and lotions to protect your skin; but chances are you simply ignore your brain and trust it to do its job. People unknowingly endanger or injure their brains, stress them by working at a frenzied pace and not getting enough sleep, pollute them with caffeine, alcohol, and drugs, and deprive them of proper nutrients. Brain dysfunction is the number one reason people fail at school, work, and relationships. The brain is the organ of learning, working, and loving - the supercomputer that runs our lives. It's very simple: when our brains work right, we work right - and when our brains have trouble, we have trouble in our lives.Luckily, it's never too late: the brain is capable of change, and when you care for it, the results are amazing. Making a Good Brain Great gives you the tools you need to optimize your brain power and enrich your health and your life in the process. The principles and exercises in this book, based on years of cutting-edge neuroscience research and the experiences of thousands of people, provide a wealth of practical information to teach you how to achieve the best brain possible. You will learn:How to eat right to think rightHow to protect your brain from injuries and toxic substancesHow to nourish your brain with vitamins and do mental workouts to keep it strongThe critical component of physical exercise and which kinds work bestHow to rid your brain of negative thoughts, counteract stress, and much moreFull of encouraging anecdotes from Dr. Amen’s many years of experience, Making a Good Brain Great is a positiv ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Cashman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000563/bk_bkot_000563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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