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Dust! Yes, those unnecessary evil

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What exactly dust is ? Let's start thus; over time, dust accumulates even in an empty room. But if one cleans out the dust, you are expected to find that the dust is only made of tiny fine particles of sand. Then you may find that as you fill the room with stuff over time, the dust start to contain tiny fibres of clothing and little particles of virtually everything in that room. Therefore, dust just is combination of a lot of different tiny particles (varying in size) unconsolidated from the "parent object" . They are obviously so light they can reach funny heights and find their way into any place, even through the tiniest opening. As a matter of fact, dust occur under water. They are just not be blown about like on land. This is possible because apart from the dust on land which find their...

Environmental Economics: Call out for a price review of commodities

INTRODUCTION We all know that economic growth and the environment, in this time and height of awareness are like two parallel lines, two sides of one coin. Involvement in one, more often than not, puts the other at one disadvantage or two. And this disadvantage that the environment is put in does not result only from economic activities. All forms of human settlement directly and indirectly cause some form of disfigure or imbalance to the environment; even agriculture and recreation. Now, the first thing that comes to the mind of many diplomats, politicians and business-minded people when they see a new product or resource is how much they can make out of it. And most if the time, the financial gain is the goal. The next plan of action is procuring the human and technological resources to harness that new product or resource. And if at all, they take very little into consideration, regarding the environmental side effects of their endeavour. And that seems very rational to some extent....