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Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control!
Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
Dalek Sec: Four.
Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect.
Cyber Leader: What is that?
Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.
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Russell T. Davies
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To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives. It takes skill and discipline to bat away the pests of bad perceptions, to separate reliable signals from deceptive ones, to filter out prejudice, expectation, and fear. But it’s worth it, for what’s left is truth. While others are excited or afraid, we will remain calm and imperturbable. We will see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are—neither good nor bad.
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Ryan Holiday (The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph)
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It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.
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Christine Amsden (The Immortality Virus)
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Spiders are anti-social, keep pests under control, and mostly mind their own business, but they somehow summon fear in humans who are far more dangerous, deceitful and have hurt more people. Of the two I'm more suspicious about the latter.
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Donna Lynn Hope
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According to NYPD figures, a contract killing could be had in Brooklyn for a mere $500. More often than not, though, people in New York were killed for free.
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Bill Fitzhugh (Pest Control (Assassin Bug #1))
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Jack and Jill fell down a hill—so what? Little Bo Peep lost her sheep—how is that my problem? Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock—call pest control, not me!
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Chris Colfer (The Mother Goose Diaries (The Land of Stories #Companion))
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On the other hand, those who are willing to wait for an extra season other two for full results (against an Japanese beetle) will turn to milky disease; they will be rewarded with lasting control that become more, rather than less effective with the passage of time.
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Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)
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Those butterflies in my stomach were getting out of hand; I needed pest control or something.
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Ana Huang (King of Sloth (Kings of Sin, #4))
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You’re…an assassin?” He wrinkles his nose. “I prefer the term pest control engineer.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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Doesn't the Federal Farm bill help out all these poor farmers?
No. It used to, but ever since its inception just after the Depression, the Federal Farm Bill has slowly been altered by agribusiness lobbyists. It is now largely corporate welfare ... It is this, rather than any improved efficiency or productiveness, that has allowed corporations to take over farming in the United States, leaving fewer than a third of our farms still run by families.
But those family-owned farms are the ones more likely to use sustainable techniques, protect the surrounding environment, maintain green spaces, use crop rotations and management for pest and weed controls, and apply fewer chemicals. In other words, they're doing exactly what 80 percent of U.S. consumers say we would prefer to support, while our tax dollars do the opposite.
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Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life)
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you. I mean, I walk down the street with friends. I ask, “Did you see him, that person who just walked by?” No, they didn't notice him. I had a very pleasant time on the train coming out here. I haven't traveled on trains in years. I found there were no drawing rooms. I got a bedroom so I could set up my typewriter and look out the window. I was taking photos, too. I also noticed all the signs and what I was thinking at the time, you see. And I got some extraordinary juxtapositions. For example, a friend of mine has a loft apartment in New York. He said, “Every time we go out of the house and come back, if we leave the bathroom door open, there's a rat in the house.” I look out the window, there's Able Pest Control.
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William S. Burroughs
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Wait—no, not drifting. Following us. “We have an audience,” I said to Reth, nodding at the clusters of flying insects.
“I suppose we can’t make the Dark Queen any angrier with us than she already is,” he said, then his perfect mouth moved, silently forming words, and he gracefully waved his hands through the air in a semicircle. The warm breeze suddenly froze, and I saw frost eat across the nearest butterflies’ wings. They stopped midair, then dropped to the ground with tiny clinking noises, frozen solid.
A serene smile spread across Reth’s face. “I’ve always disliked insects.”
“If the whole being-a-faerie thing doesn’t work out for you, you definitely have a future in pest control.
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Kiersten White (Endlessly (Paranormalcy, #3))
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After you’ve cleaned up, you can further defend against fleas and other insect pests by using food grade diatomaceous earth.
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T.J. Hall (Homemade Repellents: The Best All Natural Homemade Repellent Recipes for Ants, Mosquitoes, Flies, Roaches, Spiders, and Other Insect Control (Natural Repellents, ... Ant Repellent, Mosquito Repellent))
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Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a bold shadow, accept, accept. What we call evil is only a groping towards good, part of the trial and error by which we move toward the perfected consciousness…
God is kind? Life is good? Nature never did betray the heart that loved her? Why the reward she received for living intensely and generously and trying to die with dignity? Why the horror at the bridge her last clear sight of earth?...I do not accept, I am not reconciled. But one thing she did. She taught me the stupidity of the attempt to withdraw and be free of trouble and harm...
She said, “You wondered what was in whale’s milk. Now you know. Think of the force down there, just telling things to get born, just to be!”
I had had no answer for her then. Now I might have one. Yes, think of it, I might say. And think how random and indiscriminate it is, think how helplessly we must submit, think how impossible it is to control or direct it. Think how often beauty and delicacy and grace are choked out by weeds. Think how endless and dubious is the progress from weed to flower.
Even alive, she never convinced me with her advocacy of biological perfectionism. She never persuaded me to ignore, or look upon as merely hard pleasures, the evil that I felt in every blight and smut and pest in my garden- that I felt, for that matter, squatting like a toad on my own heart. Think of the force of life, yes, but think of the component of darkness in it. One of the things that’s in whale’s milk is the promise of pain and death.
And so? Admitting what is so obvious, what then? Would I wipe Marion Catlin out of my unperfected consciousness if I could? Would I forgo the pleasure of her company to escape the bleakness of her loss? Would I go back to my own formula, which was twilight sleep, to evade the pain she brought with her?
Not for a moment. And so even in the gnashing of my teeth, I acknowledge my conversion. It turns out to be for me as I once told her it would be for her daughter. I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.
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Wallace Stegner (All the Little Live Things)
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Se a pandemia mostrou que a inevitabilidade não existe, há um aspecto otimista nisso: não há nada, portanto, indicando que não podemos mudar, ou que o porto de chegada já está determinado. A construção do futuro está em nossas mãos, não sob o controle de um vírus, de uma peste ou de um verme.
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Jamil Chade (Luto: Reflexões sobre a Reinvenção do Futuro)
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How will you know if your pollinator population isn't up to par? If you find cucumbers fat at one end and skinny at the other, baby summer squash that are rotting at the blossom end, blackberries with only a few plump lobes, or lop-sided apples with a big side and a little side, your garden isn't seeing proper pollination. In some cases, inadequate pollination can be due to bad weather during bloom time, but if you notice problems, your first step should be to ensure that you're providing the proper habitat for wild pollen movers. (There's not much you can do about a cold spring.)
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Anna Hess (Bug-Free Organic Gardening: Controlling Pest Insects Without Chemicals (Permaculture Gardener Book 2))
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When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences. The parables of such scientific overreach are well-known: foreign animals, introduced to control pests, become pests in their own right; the raising of smokestacks, meant to alleviate urban pollution, releases particulate effluents higher in the air and exacerbates pollution; stimulating blood formation, meant to prevent heart attacks, thickens the blood and results in an increased risk of blood clots in the heart.
But when nonscientists overestimate [italicized, sic] complexity- 'No one can possibly crack this [italicized, sic] code" - they fall into the trap of unanticipated consequences. In the early 1950s , a common trope among some biologists was that the genetic code would be so context dependent- so utterly determined by a particular cell in a particular organism and so horribly convoluted- that deciphering it would be impossible. The truth turned out to be quite the opposite: just one molecule carries the code, and just one code pervades the biological world. If we know the code, we can intentionally alter it in organisms, and ultimately in humans. Similarly, in the 1960s, many doubted that gene-cloning technologies could so easily shuttle genes between species. by 1980, making a mammalian protein in a bacterial cell, or a bacterial protein in a mammalian cell, was not just feasible, it was in Berg's words, rather "ridiculously simple." Species were specious. "Being natural" was often "just a pose.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Gene: An Intimate History)
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...one of the addictions--more fundamental than the addiction to fossil fuels--that we are going to have to give up is the addiction to fighting. Then we can examine the ground conditions that produce an endless supply of enemies to fight.
The addiction to fighting draws from a perception of the world as composed of enemies: indifferent forces of nature tending toward entropy, and hostile competitors seeking to further their reproductive or economic self-interest over our own. In a world of competitors, well-being comes through domination. In a world of random natural forces, well-being comes through control. War is the mentality of control in its most extreme form. Kill the enemy--the weeds, the pests, the terrorists, the germs--and the problem is solved once and for all.
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Charles Eisenstein (Climate: A New Story)
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Si en verdad estamos poniendo bajo control el hambre, la peste y la guerra, ¿qué será lo que las reemplace en los primeros puestos de la agenda humana? Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros? En un mundo saludable, próspero y armonioso, ¿qué exigirá nuestra atención y nuestro ingenio? Esta pregunta se torna doblemente urgente dados los inmensos nuevos poderes que la biotecnología y la tecnología de la información nos proporcionan. ¿Qué haremos con todo ese poder?
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Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana)
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You must control bugs,” I say. “Bugs no eat fruit,” it answers. In other words, how can you control an animal except with fruit? “Change sap for bugs. Like this.” I show a chemical. “Sap will control animals.” “Bugs no eat fruit.” “Bugs drink sap.” “Yes,” it says. “Bugs no eat fruit.” “Change sap for bugs because bugs drink sap, no eat fruit.” “Bugs no eat fruit.” I realize that we are related plants, both bamboos, in fact, and our shared physiology is the only reason I can have a conversation of any complexity. The hedge along the river is too small to have many sentient roots. The presence of other snow vines triggers an aggressive growth, but this hedge has lived alone and is content to lead a manicured little life parasitizing its aspens and putting down more guard roots than it needs, thus serving the humans without realizing it. It has no need for intelligence, none at all. “Change sap for bugs,” I repeat, hoping that repetition will of itself prove persuasive. “Big animals eat bugs.” “Bugs no eat fruit.” “Big animals eat bugs.” “Big animals eat bugs,” the snow vine repeats. I have made progress. “Yes,” I say. “Change sap for bugs.” “Big animals eat bugs.” “Yes. Change sap for bugs. Like this.” “Bugs eat sap,” it says. “Bugs are pests.” “Bugs are good. Big animals eat bugs like fruit.” The snow vine stammers some meaningless chemical compounds and finally says, “Bugs are like fruit.” This is very significant progress. “Bugs are like fruit,” I agree. “Bugs eat sap. Change sap. Sap will control two animals.” “Sap will control bugs. Big animals eat bugs.” “Yes. You must change sap for bugs and animals.” “I will change sap for bugs and animals.” At last! “Yes. Change sap like this.” I deliver some prototype chemicals.
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Sue Burke (Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1))
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When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences. The parables of such scientific overreach are well-known: foreign animals, introduced to control pests, become pests in their own right; the raising of smokestacks, meant to alleviate urban pollution, releases particulate effluents higher in the air and exacerbates pollution; stimulating blood formation, meant to prevent heart attacks, thickens the blood and results in an increased risk of blood clots to the heart. But when nonscientists overestimate complexity—“No one can possibly crack this code”—they fall into the trap of unanticipated consequences. In the early 1950s, a common trope among some biologists was that the genetic code would be so context dependent—so utterly determined by a particular cell in a particular organism and so horribly convoluted—that deciphering it would prove impossible. The truth turned out to be quite the opposite: just one molecule carries the code, and just one code pervades the biological world. If we know the code, we can intentionally alter it in organisms, and ultimately in humans.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Gene: An Intimate History)
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Myth is also where the differences lie. Where Crusoe articulates a ‘foundation myth’ that shows Western Man asserting his autonomy and dominance as if from scratch, the Journal charts his encounter with a phenomenon he cannot understand or control. Crusoe celebrates the resourcefulness needed to create a world from new; the Journal, the endurance to watch it fall apart. For that reason it is arguably this book that among all Defoe’s works speaks most eloquently to early twenty-first-century readers attuned to imaginary landscapes of nuclear and environmental devastation, to grim fantasies of alien invasion, to the panic and
policies that accompany epidemic disease...
Turning an eye on the commercial and spiritual centre of empire rather than an island outpost, it dares to envisage London consumed not just by disease but violent self-interest that tears at the social fabric. It is that very modern phenomenon, an illness narrative, but one in which the patient is a whole city. Works inspired by it—Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Albert Camus’s La Peste—do not so much dismantle its ideology as try to render afresh the uniquely disturbing impact. (David Roberts)
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Daniel Defoe (A Journal of the Plague Year)
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In fact, wheat has been modified by humans to such a degree that modern strains are unable to survive in the wild without human support such as nitrate fertilization and pest control.3
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William Davis (Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health)
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1. Insects and fungi are not the real cause of plant diseases but only attack unsuitable
varieties or crops imperfectly grown. Their true role is that of censors for pointing
out the crops that are improperly nourished and so keeping our agriculture up to the
mark. In other words, the pests must be looked upon as Nature's professors of
agriculture: as an integral portion of any rational system of farming.
2. The policy of protecting crops from pests by means of sprays, powders, and so
forth is unscientific and unsound as, even when successful, such procedure merely
preserves the unfit and obscures the real problem -- how to grow healthy crops." (An Agricultural Testament)
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Albert Howard
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Incalzire in pardoseala
Sistemele Margas pot fi instalate in multe tipuri de constructii (umede si uscate), noi sau renovate, in camere de zi sau in bai, mansarde, dormitoare, etc. Sisteme de incalzire in pardoseala REHAU Sistemele de incalzire in pardoseala REHAU ofera in prezent un excelent raport confort/rentabilitate și multa siguranta prin intermediul multor sisteme de incalzire in pardoseala montate peste tot in lume, in birouri, fabrici, locuinte, unitati de asitenta sociala si institurii publice. Adaptabilitatea la mai multe tipuri de pardoseli ofera sistemelor REHAU un prestigiu remarcabil. O temperatura ambientala plăcută este ușor de controlat daca vom folosi sistemele de încălzire prin pardoseală. Membrane de polietilena Membranele de polietilena pentru izolare folosite de Compania Margas indeplinesc normele stabilite pentru standardele DIN 0.
Datele tehnice pentru tevileTevile Rautherm folosite de noi sunt prezentate in urmatorul tabel: Proprietati Teste Valoare Unitati Densitate DIN0, g/cm Modul Young DINAprox. Clasele in care este disponibil acest tip de izolatie pentru pardoseala sunt urmatoarele: - EPS 0; - EPS 00. Tevile Universale Tevile Rautherm
sunt flexibile si au urmatoarele raze minime de îndoire : - ( x D) la> 0ºC - ( x D) la 0ºC. Apa calda necesara pentru functionarea sistemelor de incalzire REHAU poate fi furnizata de orice surs energetica, inclusiv regenerabila, solara, geotermala sau din surse conventionale – incalzirea electrica sau pe baza de gaz.
Sunt foarte recomandate persoanelor care sufera de boli alergice si familiilor cu copiii mici pentru ca scade pericolul de a se lovi de tevi sau calorifere.REHAU – sisteme de incalzire in pardoseala De ce ar trebui să aleg un sistem de incalzire in pardoseala ? Control. . Cu ajutorul unor dispozitive de controlat temperatura montate in fiecre camera in parte, puteți regla temperatura dorită în fiecare încăpere. Tevile Universale RAUTHERM sunt fabricate din polietilena reticulara. Din cauza suprafetei mari pe care sunt asezate tevile de propilena reticulara, nu este nevoie decat de o temperatura de - grade Celsius pentu apa care circula in sistem. Incepand cu conductele necesare pentru realizarea sistemului de incalzire, REHAU poate furniza tot ce este nevoie pentru o utilizare optimă a încălzirii prin pardoseală. Diminuarea curentilor de aer va determina o miscare mai redusa a a particulelor de aer si impuritati prezente in aer in mod constant.
Dar, piatra, parchetul montat prin metode clincker sau suprafețele ceramice sunt cele mai recomandate pentru astfel de situatii. Cost redus, confortabilitate mare, eficienta energetica maxima. incalzire in pardoseala pentru locuintele renovate!
Este o reputație castigata de-a lungul timpului cu eforturi sustinute pe care Compania Margas doreste să o mențină cat mai mult timp. Există mai multe beneficii pentru sistemele de incalzire in pardoseala de la REHAU: Spre deosebire de radiatoarele convenționale, încălzirea prin pardoseală asigură o distribuție uniformă a căldurii. Spatiile noi de locuint se potrivesc perfect sistemelor de încălzire prin pardoseală, deoarece acestea pot fi încorporate în planurile de constructie a locuintei chiar de la început.
Spre deosebire de sistemele clasice de calorifere, sistemele REHAU de încălzire prin pardoseala utilizează temperaturi semnificativ mai mici ale apei, pentru a încălzi o cameră in mod confortabil. Durata de viata a tevilor de plastic folosite la fabricarea sistemelor REHAU este de aproximativ 0 de ani. . Margas combină tehnologia moderna si ingineria germană, cu experiența de pestede ani în fabricarea sistemelor eficiente de încălzire prin pardoseală. Da, sistemele de încălzire prin pardoseală sunt deosebit de recomandate persoanelor care sufera de alergii. Sistemele moderne de control cu care sunt dotate instalatiile REHAU permit emiterea cantitatii dorite de caldura prin pardoseală, in momentul dorit si i
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Ionuţ Popescu
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Primeiro, "do próprio corpo do sujeito, que está destinado à decadência e à desintegração... " Por que é, então, que a ciência está sempre sonhando com o prolongamento da vida?
Segundo... "do mundo exterior, que pode enfurecer-se contra nós corri força esmagadora, inexorável e destruidora..." Por que, então, grandes humanistas passaram a metade da vida pensando nas maneiras de melhorar este mundo? Por que milhões de heróis da liberdade deram a vida na luta contra esse mundo exterior ameaçador, tanto no contexto social como no tecnológico? A peste não havia sido vencida, afinal? A escravidão física e social não havia sido reduzida? Não seria possível, jamais, dominar o câncer e a guerra, como a peste havia sido dominada? Nunca seria possível vencer a hipocrisia moralista , que mutila as nossas crianças e os nossos adolescentes?
O terceiro argumento contra o anseio humano de felicidade era sério, e permaneceu inexplicado. O sofrimento causado pelas relações do sujeito com outras pessoas, disse Freud, é mais doloroso que qualquer outro. As pessoas têm a tendência de encará-lo como um aborrecimento superficial, mas não é menos fatal ou mais evitável do que o sofrimento que tem outras origens. Aqui, Freud dá voz às suas próprias experiências amargas com a espécie humana. Aqui, atinge o problema econômico-sexual de estrutura, i.e., a irracionalidade que determina o comportamento de um homem. Eu mesmo tive dolorosa amostra disso na organização psicanalítica, organização cuja tarefa profissional deveria consistir no controle médico do comportamento irracional. Agora Freud estava dizendo que esse sofrimento era fatal e inevitável. Mas por quê? Que sentido havia, então, em focalizar o comportamento através da perspectiva de métodos científicos e racionais? Que sentido havia em defender a educação do homem para um comportamento racional e orientado para a realidade? Por alguma razão inexplicável, Freud não conseguia ver a crescente contradição da sua atitude. Por um lado, estava certo ao reduzir a conduta e o pensamento humanos aos motivos irracionais inconscientes. Entretanto levara isso longe demais: o impulso de derrubar uma árvore para construir uma cabana não é de origem irracional. Por outro lado, havia uma visão científica do mundo na qual a lei por ele descoberta não era válida. Era uma ciência que transcendia os seus próprios princípios! A resignação de Freud era apenas uma fuga à enorme dificuldade apresentada pela patologia que se contém no comportamento humano — a malícia do homem. Freud estava desiludido. A princípio, pensava haver descoberto a terapia radical das neuroses. Na realidade, isso fora apenas um começo. Era muito mais complicado do que sugeria a fórmula de tornar o inconsciente consciente. Sustentava que a psicanálise podia abraçar não apenas problemas médicos, mas problemas universais da existência humana.
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Wilhelm Reich (The Function of the Orgasm (Discovery of the Orgone #1))
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Shelly looked around the jamb again as though whatever animal that had been terrorizing her had a weapon. “That doesn’t look like typical rat shit. You may be right. This needs to be handled right now. You’re a lesbian, get in there and do battle.” “What does being gay have to do with trapping a squirrel?” “Two women live together, who kills the vermin?” Shelly asked with a hand on her hip. “The pest control people, that’s who.” “Butch up and get your ass in there. I won’t tell anyone if you scream like a five-year-old girl.” “I’m a femme lesbian, which puts me in the same class as you.” Ryann pointed to her face. “Note the makeup. Besides, you were the one who always played in the dirt and rode horses.” “There weren’t any squirrels in that dirt with me! I’ll pick up a bug or a frog, I even handled a grass snake once, but I do not deal with rodents.” Ryann leaned against the doorjamb and stared into the room. “It’s most likely under the couch. Where’s Grant?” “After-school detention for piercing his and the noses of his friends with pushpins.” Ryann stared at her in horror. “What is wrong with your kids?
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Robin Alexander (Next Time)
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Truly Nolen (Truly Original)
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Why do you follow him? What can he offer you?
Knowledge, child. There is no keener mind in the galaxy than that sour chunk of meat that occupies his skull. He has forgotten more about the inner workings of man and xenos alike than any Apothecary has ever known. I came to him to learn how to craft new and better contagions, so that Grandfather's blessings might be shared more freely. There are secret plagues from Old Night in these containers and virulent infections culled from crumbling bones of long dead aeldari. And with these raw materials and his aid, I have made wonders and horrors undreamt of by even the most glopsome of my brothers. Plagues that would devour even the rubbery flesh of Grandfather's children...
Daemons are not susceptible to mortal plagues.
No, they are not. And yet I have seen the results myself. That is what he offers me, child. In his shadow, I grow pleasingly feculent.
And what does he get out of it?
Were you not listening? Plagues, child. Swift plagues that can ravage entire systems at impossible rates. Oh, his mind is a thing of broken beauty. Even Abaddon cannot conceive of genocide on such a scale - it is not war to our Chief Apothecary, but simply...pest control. Imagine it. A great silence, falling all at once across a system. A sector. Every imperfect thing, snuffed out like a candle flame. And then... Ah, and then, a new beginning.
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Josh Reynolds (Fabius Bile: The Omnibus (Fabius Bile: Warhammer 40,000))
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I have never really understood our gene-father's obsession with martial glory. It always seemed to me more efficient to simply eradicate our foes from orbit. Pound the earth flat and build over the ashes.
And if they dig in?
There are ways. Saboteurs, chemical weapons - there are hundreds of ways of dismantling a world and its population that do not involve orbital insertions and glorious advances into the teeth of enemy fire. Perhaps I overestimate the intelligence of our species. Perhaps we are little more than psychopathic apes, driven to fashion clubs and smash out the brains of our closest neighbours.
And here I thought you were the clever one. I figured that out the day of my culling, when my family forced my cousins and me to fight for the honour of joining the Third. War as you describe it would be little more than pest control. What is there for the gods to feed on? Where is the desire for victory, the savagery, the hope and despair? Where is the entertainment?
I believe you have made my point for me.
No, you are not listening. On my pilgrimage, I learned much. Win or lose, the gods feast on our deeds. A man pets a stray, and his small pleasure in the kindness of the act feeds Slaanesh. A woman strikes her crying child, and that awful moment of elation she feels feeds Khorne. A Munitorum drone considers suicide. Nurgle grows fat on his despair. A merciful strategist devises a plan for bloodless victory, and Tzeentch is content. The Word Bearers believe the gods crave worship. But the gods care for nothing save filling their bellies with our sorrows. Intentionally or not, we are all meat for the beast. Even you, Fabius.
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Josh Reynolds (Fabius Bile: The Omnibus (Fabius Bile: Warhammer 40,000))
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As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)
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Pete Brown
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certain written languages depend heavily on context. Languages such as Arabic and Hebrew are often written only in consonants, which means the reader must figure out what the vowel is by the surrounding concepts and ideas. In those languages, if you read the equivalent of “stmp n th bg,” you’d fill in different vowels depending on whether the phrase appeared in a pest control manual (“stomp on the bug”) or a short story about a trip to the post office (“stamp in the bag”). Unlike English, languages that require the reader to supply the vowels by discerning the context are usually written from right to left.11 And as we learned a few pages ago, moving one’s eyes in that direction depends on the brain’s right hemisphere.
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Daniel H. Pink (A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future)
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I’ll take care of them. I do a bit of pest control, on the side.’ ‘Didn’t you say you do plastering on the side?’ He cocked an eyebrow. ‘There’s a lot of “on the side” when you live on an island.
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C J Cooke
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Perkasa Pest Control, Jasa Pengendalian Hama Depok
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Jasa Pengendalian Hama Depok
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Penyedia Jasa Pest Control Di Bogor
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This is the thing about ecology: everything is interconnected. It’s difficult for us to grasp how this works, because we’re used to thinking of the world in terms of individual parts rather than complex wholes. In fact, that’s even how we’ve been taught to think of ourselves – as individuals. We’ve forgotten how to pay attention to the relationships between things. Insects necessary for pollination; birds that control crop pests, grubs and worms essential to soil fertility; mangroves that purify water; the corals on which fish populations depend: these living systems are not ‘out there’, disconnected from humanity. On the contrary: our fates are intertwined. They are, in a real sense, us.
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Jason Hickel (Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World)
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Many duetting insects will jam each other’s signals, and scientists can exploit this behavior to control agricultural pests. By playing the right vibrations along wires that run through vineyards, they can shut down the sex lives of leafhoppers that spread diseases.
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Ed Yong (An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us)
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Întotdeauna am avut grijă să am o grijă. Sunt omul care s-a culcat și s-a trezit cu griji. Simt grijile după pielea care mă strânge și gâtul care se-nfundă. Când mai scap de câte o grijă, umerii își amintesc că există spațiu de sprijin pentru spate.
La școală grijile mele sunt ale mele, iar grijile celorlalți sunt tot ale mele. De aceea, multă vreme am fost văzută în școală ca doamna cu liste: peste tot unde mergeam eram cu lista în față, în cazul în care mai apare ceva să notez ca să nu uit.
În plan conștient, listele erau oaza mea de control, iar în subconștient, în somn, îmi măcinam dinții și dezvoltasem ticuri puțin observabile: așezatul ochelarilor pe nas, atingerea bărbiei, verificatul urechilor.
Am crescut o alergie față de colegii care stăteau: nu suportam să îi văd lâncezind la discuții superficiale sau la fumoar. Oamenii aceștia nu păreau să aibă griji, deci nu munceau, așadar nu existau.
Nu terminam un proiect că deja mă gândeam la următorul, încât devenisem dependentă, fără să știu, de făcutul a ceva, ajungând să pun cât mai multe pe listă, ca să fiu văzută și ca să îmi justific pâinea.
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Carmen Neagu nee Eni (Tezaur de greșeli: Ghid de supraviețuire pentru profesori)
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The forecast today is sunny, with a chance of bed bugs!
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JmBaumbach
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The Restoria section was the Culture’s current specialist contribution to this age-old struggle. As often known as Pest Control as by its official title, it was made up of experts in the management, amelioration and – if necessary – obliteration of hegswarms.
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Iain M. Banks (Surface Detail (Culture, #9))
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TRAP laws constitute governmental intrusion into the practice of medicine. Singling out abortion providers, these laws dictate medically unnecessary standards, building features, and personnel requirements. Often, the laws direct State health departments to revise existing licensing requirements and to hold clinics to the irrelevant standards of general hospitals or ambulatory surgery centers. The particulars may include wider hallways, awnings over entrances, showers for physicians, closets for janitors, and pest control in the front yard. No woman in the U.S. has ever died from inadequate door width or lack of an awning at an abortion clinic.19
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David A. Grimes (Every Third Woman In America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation)
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Hohne concludes: “The system and the rhythm of mass extermination were directed not by sadists . . . [but by] worthy family men brought up in the belief that anti-semitism was a form of pest control, harnessed into an impersonal mechanical system working with the precision of militarised industry and relieving the individual of any sense of personal responsibility.
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James Waller (Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing)
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I gave Caitlin a look. She shrugged. “Don’t know what you want me to say,” Caitlin said. “I don’t understand why humans get so worked up over killing in the first place. This is pest control. You kill him, he goes to hell, he hopefully gets put to good use. Nuisance solved.
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Craig Schaefer (A Plain-Dealing Villain (Daniel Faust, #4))
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Suddenly I’d found myself past thirty, shacked up with a fussy bald man nine years my senior who enjoyed monitoring every facet of our household—finances, thermostat, hot-water heater, water and electricity usage, lawn maintenance, and pest control.
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Julia Elliott (The Wilds)
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You been Earthside recently? Where you from, anyway?” “Houston metroplex. I went home on leave three months ago. It’s a fucking war zone now. You?” “PRC Boston-Seven,” I say. “It was a war zone already when I left.” “Kind of wrong, isn’t it? We bust our asses to keep Earth safe, and they shoot at us when we show up down there in uniform. Makes you wonder what we’re fighting for.” I don’t have to wonder. I fight because the only alternative is to suck down recycled shit for food in a welfare city on Earth somewhere, and wait for the inevitable day when the Lankies conclude their interstellar pest control campaign against us by hopping into Earth’s orbit and nerve-gassing our filthy little ant hive of a planet. I fight because it’s the only way I have to control my destiny at least a little bit.
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Marko Kloos (Lines of Departure (Frontlines, #2))
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The key concept is efficiency. The primary function of the Canadian welfare state is not to redistribute wealth— it does almost none of that. Government is involved in the economy because, in many cases, the state is able to deliver goods and services more efficiently than the market. From highways and pest control to health insurance and pensions, government is able to get the job done better. Thus the welfare state, far from being an unstable compromise between capitalism and socialism, is a perfectly logical arrangement—one that is designed to promote the overall efficiency of our economy.
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Joseph Heath (The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is As Close To Utopia As It Gets)
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Ecosystem services are things like crop pollination, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water purification, air purification, nutrient dispersal, nutrient recycling, waste processing, flood control, pest control, disease control, and so forth, that the environment provides for us free of charge.
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Peter H. Diamandis (Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think)
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The term stray refers to dogs and cats, animals traditionally viewed as pet animals, that are homeless and thus devoid of human companionship and protection. Stray animals are often perceived by individual residents as “pests” and by societal officials (specifically with respect to municipal and county animal control policies) as “nuisance animals/throwaways,” especially in the context of disease control (rabies, etc.). They are particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of existence on the street and are viewed by many people as being throwaway animals; millions of them are destroyed at animal shelters and animal control facilities in the United States each year. Four of the five violent subjects who reported acts of cruelty against stray animals reported frequent acts. Stray animals, genetically coded to bond and coexist with humans, may by necessity revert to feral (or wild) behavior, but they are not wild animals. As a result, they often seek the company of humans for food and shelter. The trust that they frequently display toward humans can be dangerous. Some of the most horrific reports of animal cruelty either committed or observed by the subjects in this study involved stray animals. These reports included exploding animals by inserting fireworks into the animal’s mouth or anus, using “Crazy Glue” to glue the paws of kittens and puppies to the middle of streets and then watching the animals be killed by passing cars, throwing stray animals to their death from rooftops, and setting animals on fire after drenching them in gasoline. Stray animals who are victims of cruelty can be analogized to the victims of serial killers, such as prostitutes and runaway juveniles; their deaths are often unseen and unknown by the average citizen until the remains are found.
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Linda Merz-Perez (Animal Cruelty: Pathway to Violence Against People)
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For one group of wasps, the braconids, transferred genes have enabled a bizarre form of pest control. The females of these wasps lay their eggs in still-living caterpillars, which their young then devour alive. To give the grubs a hand, the females also inject the caterpillars with viruses, which suppress their immune systems. These are called bracoviruses, and they arent' just allies of the wasps: they are part of the wasps. Their genes have become completely integrated into the braconid genome, and are under its control. When a female wasp builds her viruses, she loads them with the genes they need to attack a caterpillar, while withholding those they need to reproduce or spread to different hosts. The bracoviruses are domesticated viruses! They're entirely dependent on the wasps for their reproduction. Some might say that they are not viruses at all; they're almost like secretions of the wasp's body rather than entities in their own right. They must have descended from an ancient virus, whose genes wheedled their way into the DNA of an ancestral braconid and stayed there. This merger gave rise to over 20,000 species of braconid wasps, all of which have bracoviruses in their genomes-an immense dynasty of parasites that uses symbiotic viruses as biological weapons.
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Ed Yong (I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life)
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Unlike the house you live in, practically every expense attached to your rental property counts as a deductible business expense for tax purposes. Expenses to deduct include: • Mortgage interest • Property taxes • Insurance • Homeowners association dues • Advertising (to fill a vacancy) • Utilities • Repairs and maintenance • Pest control • Landscaping • Trash pickup • Depreciation What doesn’t count as an expense? Any major repairs or renovations you perform count as capital expenditures that get added to the cost basis of the property, effectively reducing your taxable income when you eventually sell.
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Michele Cagan (Real Estate Investing 101: From Finding Properties and Securing Mortgage Terms to REITs and Flipping Houses, an Essential Primer on How to Make Money with Real Estate (Adams 101 Series))
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—though the witchman greatly covetous and greedy for gold be,” mumbled the old woman, half-closing her eyes, “giveth ye not such a one more than: for a drowner, one silver penny or three halves; for a werecat, silver pennies two; for a plumard, silver pennies—”
“Those were the days,” muttered the witcher. “Thank you Grandma. And now show us where it speaks of the devil and what the book says about devils. This time ‘tis grateful I’d be to heareth more, for to learn the ways and means ye did use to deal with him most curious am I.”
“Careful Geralt,” chuckled Dandelion. “You’re starting to fall into their jargon. It’s an infectious mannerism.”
The woman, controlling her shaking hands with difficulty, turned several pages. The witcher and the poet leaned over the table. The etching did, in effect, show the ball-thrower: horned, hairy, tailed and smiling maliciously.
“The deovel,” recited the woman. “Also called willower” or “sylvan”. For livestock and domestic fowl, a tiresome and great pest is he. Be it your will to chase him from your hamlet, tamest thou—”
“Well, well,” murmured Dandelion.
“—takers thou of nuts, one fistful,” continued the woman, running her fingers along the parchment. “Next, takest thou of iron balls a second fistful. Of honey and utricle, of birch tar a second. Of grey soap a firkin; of soft cheese another. There where the deovel dwelleth, goest thou when ‘tis night. Commenceth then to eat the nuts. Anon, the deovel who hath great greed, will hasten and ask if they are tasty indeed. Givest to him then the balls of iron—”
“Damn you,” murmured Dandelion. “Pox take—”
“Quiet,” said Geralt. “Well, Grandma. Go on.”
“…having broken his teeth he will be attentive as thou eatest the honey. Of said honey he will himself desire. Givest him of birch tar, then yourself eateth soft cheese. Soon, hearest thou, will the deovel grumbleth and tumbleth, but makest of it as naught. Yet if the deovel desireth soft cheese, givest him soap. For soap the deovel withstandeth not—”
“You got to the soap?” interrupted Geralt with a stony expression turning toward Dhun and Nettly.
“In no way,” groaned Nettly. “If only we had got to the balls. But he gave us what for when he bit a ball—”
“And who told you to give him so many?” Dandelion was enraged. “It stands written in the book, one fistful take. Yet ye giveth of balls a sackful! Ye furnished him with ammunition for two years, the fools ye be!”
“Careful,” smiled the witcher. “You’re starting to fall into their jargon. It’s infectious.
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Andrzej Sapkowski (The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5))
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She said how ludicrous it was to plant huge fields of the same kinds of crops, guaranteeing pests -- and the need to use chemicals -- when, back home, the same crop was planted every seven rows. Mixing things up meant that a pest would starve before reaching the next row it needed to eat.
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Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
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planting dates accurately, begin collecting your own garden notes. Each season, review your notes to detect patterns, then adjust
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Fern Marshall Bradley (The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening))
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bloodied lace, which were both deadly in a very sedate way.
"It was totally awesome! Yoyo Hal!" Juergen bounced up and down as an upright version of
Hal falling repeatedly out of the tall wind oak only to be recaught and dragged upwards because
he insisted on doing commentary in calm even tones. "It's important to note that a strangle vine
can have as many as thirty-seven snare vines. Gak! You need to strike the base of the plant, its
nerve center, to kill the strangle vine. Fuck! Never tackle one of these alone. Jane!"
She stared at Juergen in dismay. He'd seen all that? Live? Unedited? With all the
embarrassing parts still intact? How?
The mechanic continued to act today's filming. "And you. Rawr!" He mimed the chainsaw.
"That rocked! And then Brian! 'Don't try this at home, hire a professional pest control
contractor.'" Brian was Brian Scroggins, Pittsburgh Fire Marshal and accidental guest co-host on
a regular basis. "Just epic." She fled the embarrassing recount, ignoring the belated, "So how is
Hal?
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Wen Spencer (Pittsburgh Backyard and Garden (Elfhome, #1.5))
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Inextricably linked to the climate emergency is a broader environmental crisis. A third of the Earth’s land is now acutely degraded, with fertile soil being lost at a rate of 24 billion tonnes a year through intensive farming.[19] Generating three centimetres of top soil takes 1,000 years, and, the UN said in 2014, if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years.[20] 95% of our food presently comes from the soil. Unless new approaches are adopted, the global amount of arable and productive land per person in 2050 will be only a quarter of the level in 1960. The equivalent of 30 football pitches of soil are being lost every minute. Heavy tilling, monocropping multiple harvests and abundant use of agrochemicals have increased yields at the expense of long-term sustainability. Agriculture is actually the number one reason for deforestation. In the past 20 years, agricultural production has increased threefold and the amount of irrigated land has doubled, often leading to land abandonment and desertification. Decreasing productivity has been observed, due to diminished fertility, on 20% of the world’s cropland, 16% of forest land, 19% of grassland, and 27% of rangeland. Furthermore, tropical forests have become a source rather than a sink of carbon.[21] Forest areas in South America, Africa and Asia – which have until recently played a crucial role in absorbing GHG – are now releasing 425 teragrams of carbon annually, more than all the traffic in the US. This is due to the thinning of tree density and culling of biodiversity, reducing biomass by up to 75%. Scientists combined 12 years of satellite data with field studies. They found a net carbon loss on every continent. Latin America – home to the world’s biggest forest, the Amazon, which is responsible for 20% of its oxygen – accounted for nearly 60% of the emissions, while 24% came from Africa and 16% from Asia. Every year about 18 million hectares of forest – an area the size of England and Wales – is felled. In just 40 years, possibly one billion hectares, the equivalent of Europe, has been torn down. Half the world’s rainforests have been razed in a century and they will vanish altogether at current rates within another. Earth’s “sixth mass extinction”[22] is well underway: up to 50% of all individual animals have been lost in recent decades and almost half of land mammals have lost 80% of their range in the last century. Vertebrate populations have fallen by an average of 60% since the 1970s, and in some countries there has been an even faster decline of insects – vital, of course, for aerating the soil, pollinating blossoms, and controlling insect and plant pests.
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Ted Reese (Socialism or Extinction: Climate, Automation and War in the Final Capitalist Breakdown)
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The observatory management team were advised not to allow an infant to stay at the high altitude observatory by their observatory director and the National Optical Astronomical Observatory (NOAO) health and safety manager. They ignored both of them and allowed the infant to stay at the industrialized research facility. The industrial facility was regarded as health and safety risk to the infant and had infestations of rodents and scorpions. It was regularly sprayed with pesticides by pest control.
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Steven Magee
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Maybe the only explanation for people who have to ask why the Florida grasshopper sparrow matters is this: It matters not because it is a source of enrichment for human lives (although it is), not because it is a source of medicine or agent of pest control (it is probably neither), not because it is an “indicator species” that tells us we haven’t completely wrecked our habitat, not because it is anything, only because it is.3
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Peter P. Marra (Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer)
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In 2015, 92 percent of all corn, 94 percent of all cotton, and 94 percent of all soybeans grown in the United States were genetically engineered in this way. The altered crops offer considerable environmental and economic advantages. By planting crops that have enhanced abilities to protect themselves against pests, farmers can attain higher yields while reducing their reliance on harsh chemical pesticides and herbicides.
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Jennifer A. Doudna (A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution)
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I killed a fruit fly that wouldn't get out of my face by clapping my hands on it. In its last act of kamikaze defiance, the fly hurled its fading carcass into a coffee I had only half-drunk and was enjoying. I had to pour it down the drain. F***er.
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Stewart Stafford
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If my Choose Method had existed back then, it would have led to the discovery right from the start that the pest control market was a Red light market.
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Ryan Levesque (Choose: The Single Most Important Decision Before Starting Your Business)
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Ahhh. Someone had put yet another ward around the tent to keep out dirt and bugs. They were not messing around with pest control here.
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Honor Raconteur (Imagineer (Imagineer #1))
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It was quite common for households in towns like mine to have BB rifles, commonly called slug guns. These were air rifles that shot very tiny soft lead pellets called slugs. They weren’t that lethal unless you shot at very close range, but they could blind you if you got shot in the eye. Most teenagers had them to control pests like rats, or to stun rabbits. However, most kids used them to shoot empty beer cans lined up on the back fence, practising their aim for the day they were old enough to purchase a serious firearm. Fortunately, a law banning guns was introduced in Australia in 1996 after thirty-five innocent people were shot with a semi-automatic weapon in a mass shooting in Tasmania. The crazy shooter must have had a slug gun when he was a teenager. But this was pre-1996. And my brothers, of course, loved shooting. My cousin Billy, who was sixteen years old at the time – twice my age – came to visit one Christmas holiday from Adelaide. He loved coming to the outback and getting feral with the rest of us. He also enjoyed hitting those empty beer cans with the slug gun. Billy wasn’t the best shooter. His hand-eye coordination was poor, and I was always convinced he needed to wear glasses. Most of the slugs he shot either hit the fence or went off into the universe somewhere. The small size of the beer cans frustrated him, so he was on the lookout for a bigger target. Sure enough, my brothers quickly pushed me forward and shouted, ‘Here, shoot Betty!’ Billy laughed, but loved the idea. ‘Brett, stand back a bit and spread your legs. I’ll shoot between them just for fun.’ Basically, he saw me as an easy target, and I wasn’t going to argue with a teenager who had a weapon in his hand. I naively thought it could be a fun game with my siblings and cousin; perhaps we could take turns. So, like a magician’s assistant, I complied and spread my skinny young legs as far apart as an eight-year-old could, fully confident he would hit the dust between them . . . Nope. He didn’t. He shot my leg, and it wasn’t fun. Birds burst out of all the surrounding trees – not from the sound of the gunshot, but from my piercing shriek of pain. While I rolled around on the ground, screaming in agony, clutching my bleeding shin, my brothers were screaming with laughter. I even heard one of them shout, ‘Shoot him while he’s down!’ Who needs enemies when you have that kind of brotherly love? No one rushed to help; they simply moved to the back fence to line up the cans for another round. I crawled inside the house with blood dripping down my leg, seeking Mum, the nurse, to patch me up. To this day, I have a scar on my leg as a souvenir from that incident . . . and I still think Billy needed glasses. I also still get very anxious when anyone asks me to spread my legs.
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Brett Preiss (The (un)Lucky Sperm: Tales of My Bizarre Childhood - A Funny Memoir)
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Pests can be more than a nuisance; they pose serious risks to health, property, and peace of mind. While DIY solutions may offer quick fixes, professional pest control services provide lasting solutions that protect homes and businesses. Here’s why investing in pest control experts is crucial for long-term safety and comfort.
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Professional pest control companies offer warranties and guarantees, giving you peace of mind knowing that if pests return within a certain period, follow-up treatments are covered. This reliability and accountability set professional pest control apart from DIY approaches.
Key Takeaways
Hiring pest control experts is essential to ensure a safe, pest-free environment. Professional pest control services offer customized solutions, advanced tools, safety, cost-effectiveness, and guaranteed results. By choosing experts, you protect your health, property, and peace of mind.”Our pest control services are tailored to meet the specific needs of your home or business.
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