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POPSDisaster looms with rising sea levels: islands Major emitters are pushing for greenhouse gas emissions cuts that are too low to prevent devastating sea rises, representatives said at the World Ocean Conference in Indonesia's Manado city. The five-day conference has attracted hundreds of officials and experts from 70 countries and is being billed as a prelude to December talks on a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol.
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POPSLow target hurts Aust's credibility, green groups say What bloody credibility? Maybe I missed the credibility of following Bush to Iraq, the credibility for our pathetic treatment of political refugees, blah, blah, blah Our noble leader, having not been voted in as world leader on this issue, goes home and goes soft.
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POPS'Fish in the forest' "Would you take a fish and put him in the forest?" It sounds ridiculous. Who would do that? But as we grow ever more convinced of the changes that are taking place in PNG's coastal communities, our question is going to have to be, "how will we take a fish and help him thrive in the forest?"
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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! The Institute sees super-threats are "massively disrupting global society as we know it. There’s an entire generation of homeless people worldwide, as the number of climate refugees tops 250 million. Entrepreneurial chaos and “the axis of biofuel” wreak havoc in the alternative fuel industry. Carbon quotas plummet as food shortages mount. The existing structures of human civilization—from families and language to corporate society and technological infrastructures—just aren’t enough. We need a new set of superstructures to rise above, to take humans to the next stage." The Institute says: "You can help. Tell us your story. Strategize out loud. Superstruct now." Twitter that, Galaxians. Kind of makes Malthus look like a children's book.
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POPSplant refugees The researchers used two different climate models that predict changes in temperature and rainfall through 2100 to make their projections -- one that assumes higher and another that assumes lower greenhouse gas emissions. What the models did suggest, however, is that reducing greenhouse gases would have a significant impact on native species
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POPSRefugee Crisis here. UN Report When we connect the dots, as in oil, food, water, air, wars and seemingly countless other causes, for an explosion of the refuge tragedy we all should be ready and find solutions, not stricter law enforcement and walls and borders.. We seem to be, if not THE cause, a major contributor.
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POPSCreating insignificant events -Futuristic art Vincent Callebaut 'work was lately exhibited in Paris ; ;" To believe in the world means to create events, even insignificant ones, that gets out of control, or create new space-times, even in reduced surfaces or volumes"
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POPSLatest global warming first: Climate refugees face mass exodus Last year we heard of Shishmaref , an Alaskan Inuit village that had to relocate, Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec where igloos are no longer viable , but Bangladesh has 140 million people "Bangladesh is nature's laboratory on disaster management," said Ainun Nishat, representative of the World Conservation Union and a government adviser on climate change. As temperatures rise and more severe weather takes hold worldwide, "this is one of the countries that is going to face the music most," he said. Bangladesh is hardly the only low-lying nation facing tough times as the world warms. Scientists say it in many ways represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because it is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.
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POPSPartners in Crime I wonder if Afghanistan and Iraq consider themselves lucky countries too? As for climate change? It seems to me that Oz has been suffering quite a bit due to climate change with endless droughts and snow in Summer. Perhaps Oz should rethink it's butt-kissing attitude towards the US and think for itself for a change?
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