Having wandered through the exhibition at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen and now also enjoyed the accompanying book of 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear I can’t help but take note of a couple of them here. Because the descriptions in some cases explicitly mentions conflicts. Granted: Many will change with potential drastic consequences. Be…
Month: September 2009
Climate change: a multiplier for instability
As a participant in the TH!NK ABOUT IT Climate Change blogging competition I attended Monday’s European Journalism Center conference in Bella Conference Center (venue of COP15 later this year). Among the speakers were Francois Roudié, Policy Coordinator of the European Commission. Very insightful and surprisingly willing to engage in open debate. One of his presentation…
Nuclear waste dumped in Mediterranean
They have somehow maintained a romantic image while running a business of world wide drug distribution, assassinations and assorted corruption. But no description is too demeaning for the latest crime committed by the Italian mafia. Francesco Fonti, a former member of the Calabrian Mafia, has told of sinking ships loaded with radioactive and otherwise dangerous…
Trouble brewing in dried-out India
Years of excessive use of water for irrigating fields, a drying trend from global warming, a record drought and astronomical scale pollution all adds up to trouble in India. Harvests go down, farmer income the same direction, malnourishment and desperation up. So much according to The Star / India: Dying of thirst a family was…
Another MUST SEE: Crude – The Real Price of Oil
Just saw HOME, still planning to see DIRT and now this, CRUDE. (Haven’t these people heard of lower case letters?) Another 2009 film about environmental exploitation and the hidden costs of it; mostly poor and/or indigenous people abused by Western companies and consumers. More at the official website, IMDb, Hollywood and Fine / Crude: The…
China: Thousands riot over sewage pollution
That Chinese economic development is taking place more rapidly than environmental protection is no secret. Air pollution in larger cites have been among the worst in the world for years. But a sewage leak was what finally sparked unrest in one town where for at least two years insufficient industrial water treatment has darkened river…
John Kerry: Climate change to cause conflict; how come deniers can stay in politics?
In a late evening soon to end brief spell of energetic RSS-feed checking ending a day of trying to sleep away a flu attack I find We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change by John Kerry, US Senator, is a kind of follow-up and sum-up to the articles I posted Sunday, August 02,…