The paragraph about deforestation is particularly pertinent to Tasmania. So why aren’t Lab/Lib politiciins (or Forestry Tas/Gunns) listening?
http://www.wcs.org/press/press-releases/wcs-report-identifies-species-under-stress-from-climate-change.aspx

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So have we become too clever and too clean? And are we now at risk of being disconnected from all those creatures that have kept us healthy for millennia?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-microbiome-change

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I always knew the decision to go vegetarian was a good one . . .
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wirestory?id=9435333&page=1

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Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. -John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator (b. 1936)