The plan has provoked angry protests from environmental campaigners opposed to the controversial hydraulic fracturing technique as well as groups concerned about more local environmental impact issues.
Its vision now: to have "profound impact on the way the world does business" For a version more about local impact, consider the purpose of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma, which now is to "ensure the enduring global competitiveness of Oklahoma and the nation".
While having the community thrown out of its previous balance may mean the rodents will be less able to cope with manmade climate change, addressing those more local, human impacts is perhaps an easier challenge in the short term than dealing with climate change, Terry says.
A 4C average would also mask more severe local impacts: the Arctic and western and southern Africa could experience warming up to 10C.
That raises the question of why both are in the same INES category, given that Three Mile Island did not, in the end, have more than a local impact.
Third, scales employed to measure significant constructs―such as patient empowerment, ease of use, perceived value―are self-crafted by each project team, more intended for local impact assessment exercises, than for the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge in the scientific community.
You can move your money to a local institution that offers lots of upside when it succeeds (for example, they promote small businesses and make more local loans) and minimal impact when it fails.
It looks in more detail at the potential local impact of the plan.
North of the border, in Canada, public outrage is more focused on the devastating local impact to communities and ecosystems, with much of Alberta being turned into a moonscape to fatten the profits of the Koch brothers, Valero, and other oil interests.
