Just watched Occupation 101 two years late. It’s a gripping documentary about the history and status quo of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. While not being about battle for resources it does mention the grabbing of fertile lands by Jewish settlers. [In 1947] The UN – under pressure – proposed to divide the land…
Month: February 2010
Food security: climate change and sustainable development (TH!NK2½ part I)
I and the other TH!NKers are moving from part 2 to part 3, from climate change and COP15 to sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals. Both topics are multifaceted, overlapping and quite complex.In fact, apart from climate change essentially being a sustainability issue, sustainable development was addressed directly several times during TH!NK2. Including by…
Minor oil conflicts saber rattling
Oil conflicts are not just about Iraq, Afghanistan and obscure former Soviet republics in between. The Falkland Islands As drilling equipment approaches Falkland Oil & Gas stocks are up. So is the Argentine-UK diplomatic heat. “The Foreign Ministry reiterates its sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the…
Pentagon report on climate change and renewable energy
Via Current.com/Green (which is filling up with dumb asses so I can’t really recommend it) I noticed Treehugger had an article about one “Abu Muqawama” at Center for a New American Security posting the US Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review 2010. Scroll to pages 107-111, chapter “DoD’s Approach to Climate and Energy”, in the…