Procampo, a government programme meant to provide a minimum income for every farmer, was hijacked years ago by agribusiness, with a big slice of its annual budget of $1.4 billion going to large-scale farmers in the north.
If some significant fraction of the NIH budget is going to large-scale projects, and a substantial fraction of each project's budget goes into informatics, that translates into a lot of jobs," says David States, who is a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Washington, Seattle.
The prototypes and concepts are interesting, but truly hard part is still to come — Scanadu will have to make sure that its products pass FDA inspections and can secure funding necessary to go to large-scale production.
To the extent there are real spending increases, the bulk of the extra cash will go to large-scale infrastructure and favored state-owned industries, especially in the textile, heavy machinery, petrochemical, logistics, nonferrous metals, information technology, electronics, vehicle and steel sectors.
Here we will change the scaling, and go to larger time-scales (of order (varepsilon^{-4})) and closer to bifurcation (i.e., (nu_{varepsilon}) of order (varepsilon^{4})).
"Scientists are increasingly convinced that we are going to need large scale removal systems to fight climate change," says Noah Deich, founder of nonprofit Center for Carbon Removal.
"Scientists are increasingly convinced that we are going to need large scale removal systems to fight climate change," says Noah Deich, who recently started the Berkeley, California, nonprofit Center for Carbon Removal.
"The niche opera companies are not going to produce large-scale works like 'Moby-Dick' and 'Silent Night' " — recent hits by Jake Heggie and Kevin Puts, respectively — "which are having success nationwide but which are notably absent from New York".
The scale of investment needed to turn the economy round – in infrastructure, social housing, supply chains and the green economy – is going to demand large-scale public intervention and regulation if the private sector continues to sit on its cash piles (including, say, the taxation of dividends and unused cash reserves).
We need to have those conversations if we're ever going to tackle large-scale gun violence in America.
