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November 28, 2007
Human Development Report 2007/2008
"Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. There is a window of opportunity for avoiding the most damaging climate change impacts, but that window is closing: the world has less than a decade to change course. Actions taken — or not taken — in the years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial resources nor the technological capabilities to act. What is missing is a sense of urgency, human solidarity and collective interest."
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November 25, 2007
ENERGY VISION 2020:
S h a m e l e s s Bush Propaganda
This looks quite interesting, anyone no doubt will agree . . .
"In 2020, world population has grown to 7.5 billion people, the global economy is approaching $80 trillion, and the wireless Internet 4.0 is now connecting almost half of humanity.
Synergies among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science have dramatically improved the human condition by increasing the availability of energy, food, and water and by connecting people and information anywhere, anytime."
However, it appears to be really shameless propaganda for the Bush dynasty . . .
"Jeb Bush gave his 2020 State of the Union address as the 47th president of the USA. Jeb Bush was the former governor of Florida, younger brother of George W. Bush and second son of George H. W. Bush.
He underlined the great progress made in terms of energy independence and energy diversification in the USA. He highlighted that even though neither the hydrogen economy nor nuclear fusion have yet come to happen, the USA is almost self sufficient in power consumption thanks to advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology."
U N B E L I E V A B L E !
"In 2020, world population has grown to 7.5 billion people, the global economy is approaching $80 trillion, and the wireless Internet 4.0 is now connecting almost half of humanity.
Synergies among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science have dramatically improved the human condition by increasing the availability of energy, food, and water and by connecting people and information anywhere, anytime."
However, it appears to be really shameless propaganda for the Bush dynasty . . .
"Jeb Bush gave his 2020 State of the Union address as the 47th president of the USA. Jeb Bush was the former governor of Florida, younger brother of George W. Bush and second son of George H. W. Bush.
He underlined the great progress made in terms of energy independence and energy diversification in the USA. He highlighted that even though neither the hydrogen economy nor nuclear fusion have yet come to happen, the USA is almost self sufficient in power consumption thanks to advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology."
U N B E L I E V A B L E !
November 17, 2007
SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON:
"Climate Change As Frightening As A Science Fiction Movie"
Today the world's scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice: climate change may bring "abrupt and irreversible" impacts, including the fast melting of glaciers and species extinctions.
Even if levels of CO2 in the atmosphere stayed where they are now, research showed sea levels would rise by between 0.4 and 1.4 metres simply because water expands as it warms.
However, carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than they were a decade ago.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has just been on a trip to see ice shelves breaking up in Antarctica and the melting Torres del Paine glaciers in Chile. He also visited the Amazon rainforest, which he said was being "suffocated" by global warming.
"These scenes are as frightening as a science fiction movie," Ban said. "But they are even more terrifying, because they are real."
The latest scientific knowledge on the causes and effects of climate change will be put before environment ministers in Bali, Indonesia, next month -- a meeting which is likely to agree a two-year strategy to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Even if levels of CO2 in the atmosphere stayed where they are now, research showed sea levels would rise by between 0.4 and 1.4 metres simply because water expands as it warms.
However, carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than they were a decade ago.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has just been on a trip to see ice shelves breaking up in Antarctica and the melting Torres del Paine glaciers in Chile. He also visited the Amazon rainforest, which he said was being "suffocated" by global warming.
"These scenes are as frightening as a science fiction movie," Ban said. "But they are even more terrifying, because they are real."
The latest scientific knowledge on the causes and effects of climate change will be put before environment ministers in Bali, Indonesia, next month -- a meeting which is likely to agree a two-year strategy to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
November 10, 2007
Stiglitz: Worst President Ever
"Bush's fiscal irresponsibility fostered irresponsibility in everyone else. Credit was shoveled out the door, and subprime mortgages were made available to anyone this side of life support. Credit-card debt mounted to a whopping $900 billion by the summer of 2007.
The Federal Reserve Board stepped on the accelerator in a historically unprecedented way, driving interest rates down to 1 percent. In real terms, taking inflation into account, interest rates actually dropped to negative 2 percent. The predictable result was a consumer spending spree."
Read every single word here.
The Federal Reserve Board stepped on the accelerator in a historically unprecedented way, driving interest rates down to 1 percent. In real terms, taking inflation into account, interest rates actually dropped to negative 2 percent. The predictable result was a consumer spending spree."
Read every single word here.
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