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Environment and Politics

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Environment and Politics at University of York

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
University website: www.york.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Politics
Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
Politics
Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 301.
Politics
... for our English grumbling is equally distributed between the weather and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I, Chapter 18.
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Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Makepeace Thackeray, Adventures of Philip.
Radiation isn't the only problem of burying radioactive waste deep underground — waste also produces dangerous gases. An EU-funded project has forged a better understanding of how waste gases flow around and out of geological repositories to help national organisations ensure the process is safe.
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