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It demands security guarantees for the Serbian minority and cultural monuments, as well as control of the borders with Albania and Macedonia to stop traffic in arms, drugs, and women, and to prevent the use of Kosovo by Albanian extremists.
The power plants will pollute the waters with toxic coal ash, bring constant coal-barge traffic, and require the dredging of riverbeds.
Increased military activity in areas where NATO and Russia both operate now poses an unacceptably high risk to civilian air traffic.
Curiously, nobody suggested that the “lights out” campaign should also mean no air conditioning, telephones, Internet, movies, hot food, warm coffee, or cold drinks – not to mention the loss of security when street lights and traffic signals don’t work.
These are important issues, but not nearly as serious as the threat that malware poses to critical infrastructure – electricity grids, air traffic systems, oil pipelines, water supplies, financial platforms, and so on.
And city services are often more visible to citizens than federal aid; consider, for example, who responds during a traffic accident or a natural disaster.
Traditional media companies resent their reliance on Google to direct traffic to their sites and its ability to sell advertising based on snippets of their content.
If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two-way traffic.
The more hotly debated program is one in which the NSA maps the origin and destination of US citizens’ telephone traffic and stores it for possible later inspection (presumably with a court order).
Indeed, the container traffic between the Far East and Europe now totals 18 million TEUs (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) per year, compared to 20 million TEUs of annual Trans-Pacific traffic and just 4.4 million TEUs of Trans-Atlantic flows between Europe and America.
Despite the supremacy of the Mediterranean route for container traffic between Europe and the Far East, 72% of goods entering the European Union do so via northern European ports (for example, Le Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen, and Hamburg), whereas only 28% enter via southern European ports such as Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia, and Genoa.
Based partly on the European Environment Agency’s methodology, the study concludes that a redirection of port traffic to the southern European ports would reduce the CO2 emissions by almost 50%.
After all, the current imbalance in container traffic reflects northern Europe’s economic dynamism, the efficiency of its ports, excellent road and rail infrastructure to connect those ports to virtually all of Europe, and the economies of scale generated by the volume of goods that passes through them.
But, given that container traffic is expected to increase by 164% before 2020, southern European ports should be able to increase their share in flows between Europe and the Far East by 40-50%.
It is time for US leaders to place the well-being of the high-tech wealth machine – which cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars to build – above the illusory notion that the only route to safety is unfettered access to the world’s digital traffic.
(Money to be made from the illegal traffic in people, by some estimates, already outstrips the profits of the illegal drug trade.)
Their specialties are drugs, smuggling, and, recently, traffic in women.
And a good deal of traffic – with new cars smuggled in through tunnels beneath the “Philadelphi Route” that runs along the Egyptian border.
There is evidence that criminal and terrorist gangs have attempted to traffic material through countries perceived to have lax security.
That is more than the number of people who currently die of cancer, and greater than the number of deaths from diabetes, lung cancer, road traffic accidents, diarrhoeal disease, and HIV combined.
Ports are inefficient, roads are congested, and traffic is astonishingly chaotic.
As a result, the sky is usually conceptualized in terms of traffic.
There is still much work to do to improve the EU’s cross-border traffic routes, and to strengthen its security partnerships.
In the future, technology developed for military aerial surveillance could have major civilian benefits – for example, helping to control traffic and reduce road congestion, and assisting in the dispatch of rescue teams and humanitarian assistance.
The volume of air traffic increased.
As a result, traffic was in a state of chaos, and it was impossible for any roadwork to be done.
Here, emissions from ship traffic on the open seas come to mind.
Consider a traffic analogy.
One way to prevent traffic accidents is to require everyone to drive a similar car, travel at the same speed, and head in the same direction.
The first approach may maximize the traffic load that can be carried safely, but it fails to take most people where they want to go and is ultimately self-defeating.
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