But there is the looming possibility of environmental controls.
The possibility of environmental triggers for some cancers affirms our anxieties that we're pillaging and poisoning the world around us.
This is a moment in American history bedeviled by a sinking economy, the possibility of environmental catastrophe and violent conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.
Something to do with the adventure-fantasy of a new world where none of the rules apply anymore, combined with the very real possibility of environmental collapse, made the stakes so much higher and the book all the more riveting.
While the thousands of producing wells in the gulf can be temporarily sealed when a storm approaches to reduce the possibility of environmental damage, BP's well would lose whatever containment it had for the duration of the storm.
PCB levels in the environment have dropped since the manufacture and use of the compounds were curtailed, but so much electrical equipment containing PCBs is still in use that there is a continuing possibility of environmental damage.
"It is absolutely stunning that the father's age accounted for all this added risk, given the possibility of environmental factors and the diversity of the population," said Dr. Kari Stefansson, the chief executive of Decode and the study's senior author.
In a column for the Christian entertainment Web site movieguide.org, David Outten wrote that "Avatar" maligned capitalism, promoted animism over monotheism and overdramatized the possibility of environmental catastrophe on earth.
Finally, evolutionary lagload implies the possibility of environmental changes of such a great magnitude or rapid rate that species as genealogical systems cannot cope and become extinct.
If organic gunshot residues (OGSR) were found in combination with inorganic particles, the possibility of environmental sources could be potentially eliminated, thereby significantly enhancing the strength of the evidence.
No one used the term epigenetics but responses referred to the possibility of environmental influences affecting gene expression, for example; People with certain predispositions (e.g. to violence) are affected by society, and society affects how their genes are expressed (40 Student).
