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A Levee Breached, and New Worries Downstream By A. G. SULZBERGER and JOHN SCHWARTZ New York Times, May 3, 2011 Roy Presson, with his daughters Catherine, left, and Amanda, looking out at their flooded 2,400-acre farm on Tuesday in Wyatt, Mo SIKESTON, MO. — With a rapid series of explosions late Monday that could be …
More Natural Disasters, Mother Earth has finally had enough…… 300 flee as Ecuador volcano hurls out huge rocks ‘The smallest blocks are that size of an automobile while the biggest reach the size of a truck’ Associated Press, 29 April 2011 QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano hurled truck-sized pyroclastic boulders more than a mile Friday …
Trocaire reports severe weather as global trend ThePost.IE 20 March 2011 By John Burke An increase in severe weather incidents has been identified as one of the five major trends in global development aid. The trends, which also include shifting geopolitical alliances, urban poverty, demand for natural resources and widening inequality, are contained in a new …
Utah State University. Professor in the Department of Environment & Society, (Social conflict in environmental issues, human responses to climate change and environmental degradation, human uses of energy and resources). “We Need An Adult Conversation–Our Political System is Dysfunctional” See Also: Review: The Collapse of Complex Societies Complexity & Catastrophe (103) Complexity & Resilience (119) …
The Politics of War: Are We Allowing US Vets to Die from Uranium Exposure? CityWatch The Russ Report Katherine Russ, March 26, 2011 EXTRACT: DU contains less than one third as much U-235 and U-234 as natural uranium. The external radiation dose from DU is about 60% of that from the same mass of natural …
Time does not permit the detailed study a topic of this importance merits (it would be an excellent PhD project for a bi-lingual Japanese-English speaking PhD candidate) but here is what we do know: 1. The risks were known. 2. A tsunami risk was specificially brought up and dismissed at a critical juncture. 3. There …
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The below report in the Guardian makes three general points regarding the Tokyo Electric’s management operations at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor site: 1. Cost-cutting degraded safety procedures. 2. Collusion between industry and regulators. 3. Deferring decisions on how to permanently store nuclear waste. Thank god these problems do not occur in Amerika (sic). Chuck Spinney …
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