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POPSGlobal warming causes 300,000 deaths a year Civil unrest may also increase because of weather-related events, the report says: "Four billion people are vulnerable now and 500m are now at extreme risk. Weather-related disasters ... bring hunger, disease, poverty and lost livelihoods. They pose a threat to social and political stability". If emissions are not brought under control, within 25 years, the report states: • 310m more people will suffer adverse health consequences related to temperature increases • 20m more people will fall into poverty • 75m extra people will be displaced by climate change. Climate change is expected to have the most severe impact on water supplies . "Shortages in future are likely to threaten food production, reduce sanitation, hinder economic development and damage ecosystems. It causes more violent swings between floods and droughts. Hundreds of millions of people are expected to become water stressed by climate change by the 2030. ".
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POPSAmerican Christians Approve Of Torture?
What ever happened to the concept of doing good to those who persecute you? Well, the truth is that the church is quickly becoming as corrupt as the nation as a whole is, and that is saying a lot. Imagine a government that cruelly tortures thousands of prisoners endlessly for years and years and then announces to the world that nobody will ever be held accountable for the torture. That's torture "American style". Where else in the world can you be waterboarded an average of 6 times per day? It has now been revealed that terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. The following is how Wikipedia defines waterboarding: Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. By forced suffocation and inhalation of water the subject exper
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POPSAn Inside Peek: Why the World Water Forum Is a Sham "This process is clearly accountable only to the governors of the World Water Council, which reveals its illegitimate nature," says Anil Naidoo of the Council of Canadians, who is following the process closely. As I write, a block of Latin American governments, with the support of the governments of Lebanon, South Africa, and the Czech Republic, is beginning to draft an alternative declaration in protest of the official statement, to demonstrate their opposition to the World Water Forum process, and to demand an alternative, UN-led framework to guide global water policy.
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POPSReporter's diary: Savouring Davos "If their customers could see them the frustration would be tangible and, I suspect, often violent." A rather cynical view of the bankers etc at a freebie
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POPSVandana Shiva - Third World Traveler Vandana Shiva (Hindi: वन्दना शिवा; b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a physicist, environmental activist and author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage. - Wiki
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POPS2008: A Turning Point in the Fight Against Poverty
Bill Gates, Bono, Queen Rania, Gordon Brown, Ban Ki-Moon, Klaus Schwab, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and John Chambers issue joint statement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. To those who are most vulnerable to climate change and those who suffer the most grinding poverty: Let 2008 be the year of the bottom billion! More than 2,500 participants from 88 countries are in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. World. Also, business leaders from 1,000 of the foremost companies from around the world and across all economic sectors attended the meeting. Since 2000, there has been some vital progress in the fight against poverty: • 3 million more children survive every year • 2 million people now receive AIDs treatment • There are 41 million more children in school • 2 million lives are saved every year by immunization • Polio, leprosy and neonatal tetanus are on the verge of elimination • African economies have been growing at 6% for the
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POPSCall for G8 to help stem corruption in Africa: Zambia President Mwanawasa's administration is promoting private sector development for third world countries, but needs help to stop corrupt leaders from stealing the aid and other monies needed for development. This is something that has frustrated me for a long time. So much money has been given to aid African countries, with the goal of delivering food, water, healthcare and education to the people and hopefully help them become self-sufficient, yet time and again corrupt "leaders" steal the money. When I read this news article today I was relieved to learn that ethical leaders in Africa are also frustrated by the corruption, and that they are trying to find ways to thwart it. Hopefully the G8 have the ethics needed to heed the plea and do the right thing.
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