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| You have requested a debate on this subject in the course of the next few days, during this part-session. |
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| The Cunha report on multiannual guidance programmes comes before Parliament on Thursday and contains a proposal in paragraph 6 that a form of quota penalties should be introduced for countries which fail to meet their fleet reduction targets annually. |
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| Mr Berenguer Fuster, we shall check all this. |
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| I should like to address one final point. |
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| I do realise that this is only a small step towards increased transport safety, but I would ask you to endorse this report. |
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| I am speaking for the first time in this plenary part-session, so this is quite exciting for me, a little like first love, although that did last longer than two minutes. |
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| In many ways, the prerequisites differ from one Member State to another. |
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| The reason Mr Koch produced his sound report was because the work in the CEN and within the United Nations Economic Commission was proceeding none too expeditiously. |
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| Mr President, I would once again like to congratulate Mr Koch on his magnificent work on this other report, which in a way supplements the debate which we held in October on rail transport. |
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| We have to remember that rural areas represent almost four fifths of the territory of the European Union. |
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| We are badly behind now in this matter. |
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| We oppose the excessive control the central administration of the Union and its Member States exercises and we are calling for a reduction in the bureaucracy that has taken root in the drafting and implementation of programmes. |
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| The Structural Funds have played a key role in the development both of urban and rural parts of peripheral countries, mainly through the upgrading of roads, water treatment and related transport networks. |
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| how can we ensure that Union policy interfaces with the subsidiary national policies for regional development? |
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| as far as French planning experts are concerned, for example, the most probable scenario today is that of the entrenchment of regional disparities within each country. |
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| In addition, if you choose to use Facebook from your mobile device, please note that you will be responsible for any fees associated with internet usage and/or text messaging as determined by your mobile service provider. |
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| To sign up for a brand new account, enter your name, birthday, gender, and email address into the form on www.facebook.com. |
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| Facebook Adverts. |
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| Deepen your relationships. |
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| 10% conversion rate from visits originating from Facebook Adverts. |
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| (21) EUPs complying with the ecodesign requirements laid down in implementing measures to this Directive should bear the 'CE' marking and associated information, in order to enable them to be placed on the internal market and move freely. |
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| and one of the workshops led to a proposal, by Member States, for a Council recommendation. |
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| Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world; |
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| (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. |
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| It's that pyramid. |
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| And what's that? |
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| That top predator, of course, is us. |
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| I love a challenge, and saving the Earth is probably a good one. |
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| We all know the Earth is in trouble. |
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| We have now entered in the 6X: |
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| the sixth major extinction on this planet. |
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| I think that vote is occurring right now. |
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| I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium. |
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| The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious. |
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| This holds up to 30,000 times its mass. |
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| They're the grand molecular disassemblers of nature - the soil magicians. |
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| They generate the humus soils across the landmasses of Earth. |
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| Dusty and I, we like to say, on Sunday, this is where we go to church. |
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| I'm in love with the old-growth forest, and I'm a patriotic American because we have those. |
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| Most of you are familiar with Portobello mushrooms. |
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| And frankly, I face a big obstacle. |
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| So, I hope to pierce that prejudice forever with this group. |
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| We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown, when it comes to fungi. |
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| Mushrooms are very fast in their growth. |
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| Mushrooms produce strong antibiotics. |
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| In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom. |
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| We share in common the same pathogens. |
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| Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi. |
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| But here is a mushroom that's past its prime. |
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| After they sporulate, they do rot. |
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| But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest. |
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| They give rise to the trees, they create the debris fields that feed the mycelium. |
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| And so we see a mushroom here sporulating. |
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| And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground. |
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| In a single cubic inch of soil, there can be more than eight miles of these cells. |
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| My foot is covering approximately 300 miles of mycelium. |
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| This is photomicrographs from Nick Read and Patrick Hickey. |
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| And notice that as the mycelium grows, it conquers territory and then it begins the net. |
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| We exhale carbon dioxide, so does mycelium. |
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| It inhales oxygen, just like we do. |
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| But these are essentially externalized stomachs and lungs. |
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| And I present to you a concept that these are extended neurological membranes. |
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| And in these cavities, these micro-cavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water. |
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| These are little wells. |
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| And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form. |
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| I first proposed, in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet. |
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| When you look at the mycelium, they're highly branched. |
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| The mycelium is sentient. |
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| It knows that you are there. |
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| When you walk across landscapes, it leaps up in the aftermath of your footsteps trying to grab debris. |
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| So, I believe the invention of the computer Internet is an inevitable consequence of a previously proven, biologically successful model. |
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| Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype. |
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| And this is the paradigm that we see throughout the universe. |
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| Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land. |
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| They came to land 1.3 billion years ago, and plants followed several hundred million years later. |
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| How is that possible? |
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| Makes the rocks crumble, and the first step in the generation of soil. |
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| Oxalic acid is two carbon dioxide molecules joined together. |
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| So, fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates. |
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| And all sorts of other oxalates are also sequestering carbon dioxide through the minerals that are being formed and taken out of the rock matrix. |
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| This was first discovered in 1859. |
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| This is a photograph by Franz Hueber. |
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| This photograph's taken 1950s in Saudi Arabia. |
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| 420 million years ago, this organism existed. |
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| It was called Prototaxites. |
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| Prototaxites, laying down, was about three feet tall. |
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| The tallest plants on Earth at that time were less than two feet. |
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| Across the landscapes of Earth were dotted these giant mushrooms. |
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| All across most land masses. |
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| And these existed for tens of millions of years. |
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| The Earth was struck by an asteroid, a huge amount of debris was jettisoned into the atmosphere. |
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| Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth. |
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| Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, because fungi do not need light. |
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| So, the prospect of fungi existing on other planets elsewhere, I think, is a forgone conclusion; |
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| at least in my own mind. |
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| The largest organism in the world is in Eastern Oregon. |