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Tag Archives: crisis
Climate Change Kills 300,000 A Year
Report From the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva: * First ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year * Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost [...]
Red Cross Spends Over $1B
The Red Cross announced it surpassed 1 billion dollars of spending in 2008. There is some debate as to why expenditures hit a record high. Is it because of the increased need for relief or because of the increased ability to reach relief victims? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is based in [...]
Swine Influenza (Flu) Update on Outbreak
In response to an intensifying outbreak in the United States and internationally caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin, the World Health Organization raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 5 on April 29, 2009. A Phase 5 alert is a “strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time [...]
Needed: Urgent Climate Change Action
Prince Charles told Italian lawmakers, “The world is struggling with the consequences of the economic crisis in which we find ourselves (but) any of the difficulties we face today will be as nothing when the full horror of global warming unfolds.” At the same time, the Asian Development Bank released this report: Southeast Asia Faces [...]
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World Economic Outlook Update
by The International Monetary Fund (IMF) World growth is projected to fall to ½ percent in 2009, its lowest rate since World War II. Despite wide-ranging policy actions, financial strains remain acute, pulling down the real economy. A sustained economic recovery will not be possible until the financial sector’s functionality is restored and credit markets [...]
China Says: Reform the International Monetary System
The People’s Bank of China is calling for a universal currency. Russia has also expressed a desire for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to use a single, non-dollar based currency. China holds a trillion dollars of US debt in dollars. The article, What Is a Dollar Worth, considered the risk of future inflation because of [...]
Climate will reach ‘crisis point’ in 2030
By politics.co.uk staff A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government’s chief scientific advisor will say later today. “It’s a perfect storm,” Prof John Beddington will tell the Sustainable Development UK 09 conference. “There’s not going to be a complete collapse, but things will [...]
Prince Charles: Economic Crisis Ain’t Nothing
AFP – Britains’s Prince Charles, seen here speaking at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, warned Thursday … * Turning sewage into charcoal Play Video Climate Change Video:Turning sewage into charcoal BBC * Climate change urgent warns Prince Play Video Climate Change Video:Climate change urgent warns Prince BBC * Prince Charles warns against climate [...]
The State Of Advertising
If you search for “NASCAR sponsorship problems” at Google, there are over half-a-million results. NASCAR has seen a huge decline in advertisers. So much so, that entire race teams have been laid-off. It’s not just racing that is being hurt in this economic downturn. Most professional sports, such as the PGA, are feeling the crunch. [...]
Wake-up Call On Water Crisis