"The government supports big agricultural interests... not small-scale farmers who are 80 per cent of the population".
Organic farming, but not small-scale agriculture, enhanced species richness of solitary bees, which is in line with their small home ranges.
"So I was the one they turned to at day three and said, 'OK, what's the solution?' And I said: 'I -- don't -- know.'" Her expertise was in wastewater treatment for cities, not small-scale drinking-water systems for individual families.
"By definition, geoengineering is not small-scale, but in terms of the comparison to existing civil-engineering projects it is not total science fiction". We think that geoengineering of glaciers on a similar scale could delay much of Greenland and Antarctica's grounded ice from reaching the sea for centuries, buying time to address global warming.
The distinction here is that Miller's is not small-scale delusional story-telling, but malfeasance on a grand scale, affecting the fate of nations and the real lives of thousands, or perhaps, ultimately, millions of people.
In fact, ATPS, which can be formed with micelles (aqueous two-phase micellar system, ATPMS), polymers, or a combination of the two, have generally been examined for large-scale biotechnological applications [ 10– 16] and not small-scale diagnostic applications.
The committee said that the fact that the coalition failed to pass plans to elect up to 80% of peers should not stop small scale reforms.
We also found that although the instability did not induce small scale wrinkling, it did have a significant effect on the mean consumption rate of the flame.
"What's exciting about this paper is it shows that tropical deforestation is not a small scale process," Masiello says.
