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Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Agreements Collaborative Indian Instance Native Number People Promised Protect Rivers Salmon Some State States Treaties Tribes Washington Washington State Water Western Which

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All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Blanket Children Emerging Entire Face First Held Hospital Moment New Parents Person Remember Tiny

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Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Adult Children Comfortable Like Lives Other Parents Want

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Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Built Foundation Hotels Rice Shanghai Shining Skyscrapers Streets Were

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As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Attitudes Aware Became Become Change Climate Climate Change Environmental First Had Issue Political Tribal Unlucky 1990S

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By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Became Businesses Capitalist Day Earth Earth Day Environmental Environmental Issues Greed Had Increasingly Issues Job Left Opportunity Price Realized Snow Tag 1980S

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Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Also Coal Even Garbage Gas Oil Only Switching Taxi Trucks

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There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: About Concerning Environment Gas Oil Serious Those Unconventional Worries

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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