NAFTA and the Food and Agricultural Industries
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect on January 1, 1994. Ethical controversies arising fromNAFTA policies, rules, and procedures reflect its character as more than a regional trade agreement designed to lower barriers to trade across US, Canadian, and Mexican borders. It offers far-reaching guarantees to the rights of foreign investors across NAFTA member state borders, including rigorous protection of intellectual property rights – exceedingWorld Trade Organization (WTO) standards. In particular, NAFTA prohibitions and sanctions against a variety of “nontariff barriers” have raised ethical concerns about a threat to national sovereignty and democratic control in promulgating and enforcing domestic health and environmental regulations, including food safety standards. Ethical concerns raised by NAFTA may best be framed as a failure of “moral imagination,” which Patricia Werhane (1999) defines as “the ability to perceive that a web of competing economic relationships is, at the same time a web of moral relationships” (p. 5). From this absence of moral imagination arises the all too common phenomenon of “moral amnesia,” which Werhane defines as “an inability to remember or learn from one’s own and others’ past mistakes and to transfer that knowledge when fresh challenges arise” (p. 7). As a consequence, “mental maps” or “cognitive scripts” that shape business decisions within the narrow confines of economic “rationality” tend to prompt a “setting aside of moral considerations in the pace of business activities” (p. 11).
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
Part I. Youth: 1. Da campo 2. Pforta 3. Bonn 4. Leipzig 5. Schopenhauer Part II. The Reluctant Professor: 6. Basel 7. Richard Wagner and the birth of The Birth of Tragedy 8. War and aftermath 9. Anal philology 10. Untimely Meditations 11. Aimez vous Brahms? 12. Aufwiedersehen Bayreuth 13. Sorrento 14. Human, All-Too-Human Part III. The Nomad: 15. The wanderer and his shadow 16. Dawn 17. The Gay Science 18. The Salome affair 19. Zarathustra 20. Nietzsche's circle of women 21. Beyond Good and Evil 22. Clearing the decks 23. The Genealogy of Morals 24. 1888 25. Catastrophe 26. The rise and fall of The Will to Power 27. The end Postscript: Nietzsche's madness.
Numerical Simulation for Natural State of Two-Phase Liquid Dominated Geothermal Reservoir with Steam Cap Underlying Brine Reservoir
Hydrothermal reservoir which liquid-dominated hydrothermal reservoir is a type of geothermal reservoir that most widely used for power plant. The exploitation of mass and heat from the geothermal fluid will decrease the pressure in the reservoir over time. Therefore the pressure drop in the reservoir will have an impact on the formation of boiling zones or boiling will increase. The impacts are an increase in the fraction of steam, dryness, in the reservoir and with good vertical permeability will form a steam cap underlying the brine reservoir. The two- phase liquid dominated reservoir is sensitive to the porosity and difficult to assign average properties of the entire reservoir when there is boiling zone in some area of the reservoir. These paper showed successful development of two-phase liquid dominated geothermal reservoir and discussed the formation of steam cap above brine reservoir through numerical simulation for state natural conditions. The natural state modeling in steam cap shows a match with the conceptual model of the vapor-dominated developed. These paper also proofed the presence of transition zone, boiling zone, between steam cap and brine reservoir.