were you foreclosed upon? couldn’t make rental payments? is the current financial climate forcing you to lead you newlywed life under your parents roof? share your story…
seems there are a lot of foul gasses being emitted from the house of Pharaoh lately have you noticed it to?
There seems to be talk of an agricultural crisis looming in the coming years which will lead to a food shortage. Already the price of wheat has escalated. Is the percentage of arable land declining with climate change? And if so, is there any remedy to this (regarding soil science)?
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I am writing about climate change keeping Albert Camus’ “The Plague” in mind. How would Camus react to this modern crisis? Any other thoughts? This is a strange pairing, but very relevent if you think about the issues “The Plague” deals with.
It’s the usual police/military trick of promoting individuals to their highest level of incompetence. It’s worked for Commissioner Ian Blair,why not for Cressida?
“The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.
Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change.
Recent war games and intelligence studies conclude that over the next 20 to 30 years, vulnerable regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, will face the prospect of food shortages, water crises and catastrophic flooding driven by climate change that could demand an American humanitarian relief or military response.
An exercise last December at the National Defense University, an educational institute that is overseen by the military, explored the potential impact of a destructive flood in Bangladesh that sent hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into neighboring India, touching off religious conflict, the spread of contagious diseases and vast damage to infrastructure. “It gets real complicated real quickly,” said Amanda J. Dory, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy, who is working with a Pentagon group assigned to incorporate climate change into national security strategy planning.”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/scienc…
Now, I know the US military and Pentagon are full of liberal socialist tree-hugging communists, but putting their obvious leftist biases aside, do you agree with their conclusions that climate change is a threat to national security?
The organization got a huge boost when Gore donated his share of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Alliance. (Gore is Chairman of the Board).
Their mission is to persuade the American people — and people elsewhere – “of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.”
Do you plan to take “The Seven Point Pledge?”http://www.climateprotect.org/
“Now We’re Cooking With Gas” or
“Ooops Did We Do Something Wrong?”
