Endless Efforts and Continuous Disputes

Summitry, solving international diplomatic disputes through summits, is claimed to have started by Versailles Summit in 1919. Not all summits achieve their objectives, however, something that is not usually conceded by the “developed countries” who are the major actors in decision making at such summits, since they foot the bill of the outcome. At the Copenhagen Summit this seems to be the case once again.

Global warming – measured with temperature differences between surface and atmosphere; land and ocean; and surface and ocean – is the increase in the average temperature of Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 °C in 100 years during the 20^th century where the scientist still could not reach a consensus on what temperature increase might be accepted – the acceptable level of warming are assumed to serve as a guideline for CO₂ reduction. Most of the observed temperature increase was very likely caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts. Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and would be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects include changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, changes in agricultural yields, water scarcity, and some other adverse health effects from warmer temperatures. The regions with temperate rises are projected to experience many deaths from heat exposure. Global warming also is expected to create economic effects such as income inequalities between and within countries and very volatile prices causing fast shifts among different markets.

The UN Climate summit recently held in Copenhagen had initially aimed at limiting temperature rises to 1.5°C and cut CO₂ emissions by 80% by 2050. Instead, after lengthy discussions, the summit only agreed to keep temperature rises below 2°C, but did not contain commitments for reduced CO₂ emissions that would be necessary to achieve that aim. One part of the agreement pledges US$ 30 billion to the developing world over the next three years, rising to US$ 100 billion per year by 2020, to help poor countries adapt to climate change after long discussions on the climate cash. But US$100 billion is only half the amount poor countries need and one of the most developed countries, Canada, refuses to contribute to this fund. Besides the main decisions, the agreement also set up a forestry deal which is hoped would significantly reduce deforestation in return for cash.

Countries such as China and India have merely promised to cut their amount of CO₂ emitted for each dollar of economic activity-carbon intensity, however, they refuse to commit to any absolute reduction targets with any good reason. Not much is expected from India where 400 million people have no access to electricity and 90 percent of the rural population burn twigs, leaves, cow dung and agricultural residue for cooking barely two meals a day.

On the other hand, U.S. has refused to increase its cuts by pointing to the political situation in Washington.

A real deal would have been so important for the world, the critics said; but the leaders of the developed countries have failed to deliver during the summit due to their worries for not being able to impose the promises to their countries. This summit have arisen the thoughts that the industrial development will continue serving the developed countries while less developed countries and the environment suffers from the pollution and the climate change causing loses in the agricultural production.

In conclusion, the most recent summit has shown that the solving international disputes through summits may not work if the citizens of the countries refuse to make concessions from biased use of the resources and do not support a fairer world.

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Why is Associated Content Rejecting Articles?

Why does Associated Content rejects articles? The following is one of the reason given by an Associated Content editor for rejecting an article for upfront payment:

“AC is building a unique library of online content, and this submission doesn’t differ enough in topic or breadth from existing content. Content on this topic is too common and widely available online.”

While I do understand the need to build a unique library of online content, I cannot understand why AC will still accept the same article for page view payment only. If the article is not unique enough for upfront payment, what makes the same article unique enough for page view only payments?

What to do with a rejected article?

If your article was rejected you could:

Rewrite it using a different keyword and/or keyphrases and resubmit it for upfront payment.

I had a few articles that was rejected by AC that I’ve rewritten and resubmitted. I was able to get upfront payment but sometimes the payment offer was so low that I decided it just wasn’t worth it.

Submit the article for page view only payment

Associated Content offers between $1.00 per 1000 views to $2.00 per page views depending on your “clout” level. While I do think it’s a good way to earn, I found that shopping around for a better offer is usually the best way to go.

Submit the article to a different content site

Since AC rejects articles for not being “unique” enough for their library, I it is best to try to use another online content library. I have submitted articles to sites such as Triond (50% adsense sharing revenue plus page view payments) and InfoBarrel (75% adsense sharing revenue) with much better results.

Ambition, Production and Development

The story of human beings survival efforts starts with collecting fruits and other eatables from nature and continues through a stage at which they produce goods by using the resources of labor and nature. In the following time, they were able to produce some tools that helped them to produce easier and more which meant killing much bigger animals and

cutting huge trees to open cultivating areas, etcetera. The creativity in thought provided humankind with an advantage against nature to be more powerful and destructive.

Improving production tools caused higher levels of economic development, a comfort for human race to generate higher population which exhibits a logarithmic increase in time and need for a larger share in the world to be stolen from nature; however, nature sometimes sends warnings which are called “disaster” by people. These interdependent destructions reach higher levels while mankind is very determined to improve its techniques to produce more for the society in which individuals have a motivation that producing more than needs allows them to be more powerful. It can easily be remembered the idea of “Producing more than your individual needs” from the success factors of the industrial revolution and the principles of capitalism.

An interesting finding about the fight between humankind and nature is Malthusian Law which explains the relation between the population and economic development. In times of high population, due to the scarcity in resources, economic recessions bring about a decrease in population which means more people dies; in times of low population, nature allows humans to develop and breed higher population. Malthusian Law basically implies that a development with a production environment of destructive technologies cannot be sustained.

On the other side of the story, humankind is not only damaging nature around them, but also damaging the psychological nature of humankind. The progressivism in production and level of goods services (progressive economic development) is changing the attitudes of people and leading them to be more ambitious and more destructive to have a better welfare level in their individual lives; even though that may deteriorate social welfare by damaging nature around us. When adding the destruction in human nature to the destructive affects of economic development, a sustainable development which ensures that following generations also can continue this development becomes impossible.

In conclusion, if a sustainable economic development is desired, the history we have already experienced proves that the current situation will not lead us to sustainability. On the contrary, nature will resist humankind’s destructive development and even might destroy it with natural disasters. In order to have sustainability in development, we need to ensure that our production technologies are not destroying nature around us, nature of us and eventually humankind.

Writing for the Adsense Sharing InfoBarrel.com Review

What is InfoBarrel.com?

According to their website, InfoBarrel.com is a “Shared Revenue Social Media Community“. Individuals are encouraged to sign up and submit media such as articles, videos, picture galleries, or sound clips. Anyone who is fluent in English and can create quality unique content can sign up for InfoBarrel.com.

How to get started on Infobarrel.com?

InfoBarrel has a pre-approval process which allow them to view writer’s contents before they are live. According to Infobarrel’s website the pre-approved process is as follows:

To become preapproved on InfoBarrel for article submission and editing a user must meet the following criteria:

1. 10 approved articles with minimal inappropriate content.
2. Have been a member of InfoBarrel for at least 14 days.
3. User’s articles must not be for the sole purpose of promoting or building links to external sites. We want people to create quality content for the benefit of Infobarrel’s readers.
4. User’s articles must be diversified and should not be based on a single subject regurgitating similar materials.
5. User must demonstrate a working knowledge of the English language and have not had any or very minimal denials due to bad English.

Once the above criteria have been met a manager will evaluate your account and grant you with preapproved status if they find your account in good standing.

Our goal is to create high quality content that provides value to the reader. If we deem you have ulterior motives for your content we reserve the right to refuse or remove preapproved status.

As a publisher on Infobarrel you are entitled to 75% of all the Google Adsense ad impressions generated by your content.

Is Writing for InfoBarrel worth it?

Many writers tend to shy away from sites that don’t offer upfront payment. Taking a look inside InfoBarrel’s forum, many writers have noticed an increase in Adsense revenue when they started submitting content to InfoBarrel. Picking the right niches is always important for freelance writers.

Sign up and Try Infobarrel today for yourself.

Earn Money with Xomba.com

Xomba.com is an adsense sharing community complete with options to post articles or social bookmarks.

In order to earn money from Xomba, you will need to sign up for Google Adsense. Click Here to sign up for Google Adsense if you haven’t already done so. Once you have created your Google Adsense account, you can sign up for Xomba by clicking here.

Xomba offers two ways to earn money through Google Adsense:  an Xomblurb or an Xombyte. Writers earn 50% adsense revenue sharing.

What’s the difference between a Xomblurb and a Xombyte?

According to Xomba.com:

Xomblurb=Bookmarking

Xomblurbs are a social bookmarking tool that allows users to share links with the entire Xomba community. In a Xomblurb you can share a link to a website, article, blog, image and video.

Xombyte=Your Blog on Xomba

A Xombyte is a term we use for a blog, article, or fiction that is submitted to Xomba. A Xombyte should be a full fledged piece of writing containing at least 150 words. It can contain links to other web pages but that should not be its main focus. Posts which use a link to another web page as its main focus should be Xomblurbs.

Earning Money From Referrals

The referral program allows you to invite other users to sign up on Xomba. For every user you refer we will give you 10% of their ad revenue. Don’t worry they will still get their 50%, we’ll take the 10% out of our half. That’s 10% for every post for as long as that user is a member. You can easily invite friends from your profile.

Earn money through bookmarking sites

Earn money through adsense sharing bookmarking sites. I have sign up for two sites that helped me not only promote my articles online but also earns me money through adsense. Both sites are free to sign up for and use. Both sites help bring in traffic and adsense clicks.

InfoPirate

According to InfoPirate.org:

We think that you should make money with your bookmarks, not us. Register, add your AdsenseID and 80% of the revenue your bookmarks make is yours.

With registering at Infopirate.org you get an account with two main features:

• Create blog entries
• Create bookmarks

If you have a Google AdsenseID, you can add your ID to your profile and start earning 80% of the revenue your bookmarks and blog entries make.

Infopirate is highly optimized for search engines so your entries will rank high on result pages and you will receive alot of traffic. Due to the fact that you are not alone on Infopirate, traffic and visitors will also stop by because of entries with similar topics and then read your articles and click ads.

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She Told Me

Get 100% adsens revenue from using SheToldMe.com. Refer someone using your referral link that looks sort of like this: http://shetoldme.com/referral/736874de

According to SheToldMe.com:

When you refer a new member to SheToldMe.com with your referral link, you will have your AdSense ID displayed on every content pages this member submits, 100% of the time, for life! Even if this new member doesn’t have an AdSense account and submits content just to build links and bring traffic to his content!

Your AdSense ad will be located within the text of his scoop, just below the tags. When a member with no referrer submits a content page, you can see an AdSense ad at the very bottom of the screen, this is the third ad (out of the three allowed by AdSense on a single page) and it is removed to make space for your AdSense ad on every pages submitted by members you referred.

It’s free to sign up and it’s a great site to use to promote your blog or articles from content websites such as Triond.com.

Associated Content No Longer Pays Upfront for News Articles

It used to be that Associated Content paid money for contents such as articles, slide shows, and audio.

When Associated Content started out, many writers, both beginners and professionals, flocked to the site. Payments were good back in those days.

However, over time, many writers noticed that Associated Content’s payments have decreased.

It seems as if Associated Content have put another dent in their writers pocket.

AC usually pays $4 upfront payment for news articles, such as the recent Tiger Woods SUV car crash. Not anymore! Associated Content have sent news writers the following:

“We have decided to remove the Upfront Payment option for non-assignment news.

Too much of our resources were spent reviewing for-pay stories that either didn’t come close to meeting requirements or were merely stolen from other media companies.

It’s our hope this will free us up to devote our time and energy to work that is more beneficial to Contributors, AC and our readers.

As always, we will continue to issue for-pay news assignments that are available to the entire community.”

This means even writers with legitimate news will not be paid the usual $4 upfront payment for the article unless it is something Associated Content have requested.

I can understand why AC will no longer want to pay for News articles. It’s simply rehashed news, summarized, rewritten, and given a “new angle” by writers on Associated Content.

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What angers me is that people who have first hand accounts of legitimate news will not be paid upfront payments because of writers who only written rehashed articles. How professional is that? Well, thanks AC for at least reading your forums and taking action! Makes me wonder if that particular writer’s other articles are all rehashed stuff.

Hits4Pay Really Does Pay

Earning money online with Hits4Pay.com is rather easy. I have read many negative reviews from people online about Hits4Pay.com, however, I’ve signed up and was able to earn money from them.

I usually just open up another window or tab and run the ads while I blog or write articles online. It’s not fast money but it’s still easy. Any extra money with little effort does count.  It help pay the bills or add to my savings account. So I’m rather happy with Hits4Pay.com

Payment from Hits4Pay have never been late for me. It’s rather convenient that they pay via Paypal.

You must be 18 years or older. One account per household/address/computer ip. Non-US citizens as well as US citizens are welcome to join.

How does Hits4Pay works?

1. Sign up for a Free Account by clicking here. You will get $10 to your account just for signing up today!

2. Every ad you view is $0.02. You must keep the site open while viewing and each ad is 60 seconds long.

3. Once you finished viewing the ad, you are credited $0.02

4. Payments is via paypal either the 15th or 16th of the month once you reach $25.00 or more.

5. You can refer people using your hits4pay referral link.

How many levels do I get paid for?

Hits4Pay’s compensation plan is a two level plan. That means:

1. Direct earnings: You earn $0.02 for each ad you look at.
2. First Level: You earn $0.01 for each ad your direct referral looks at.
3. Second Level: You earn $0.01 from each ad your direct referral’s referral looks at.

Triond Referral Is In Beta

Just when I thought Triond couldn’t get any better!

Triond is a site where you can earn money writing. In the past, Triond.com used only pay you for page views. However, recently, they added a Google Adsense Revenue sharing program. Writers now can earn 50% from adsense and page views! The Google Adsense Revenue sharing program is slowly being rolled out so not everyone have the chance to opt in just yet.

What’s new things Triond have in store for writers? Many of the writers requested that Triond start a referral program so that writers can refer family members and friends. Triond has taken the steps to try out a referral program!

The program is in beta right now because they are trying to see what the advantages and disadvantages of running a referral program.

How will this referral program work?

According to Triond’s Blog:

I did a test, recently, to see if Triond actually pays their writers and they do. Check out my article on Triond Proof of Payment. As far as I know, payment via paypal was fast. There were no fees to pay at all!

Sign up with Triond.com today.

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