Interviews with US troops and Halliburton employees explain what is happening in Iraq.
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Tags: bacteria, Economy, Government, halliburton, Iraq, KBR, Kellogg Brown & Root, Malaria, Military, Politics, soldiers, U.S., virus
Says diminishing farmland will lead to food riots, despite being behind corn-based ethanol push
“There are a lot of different problems being caused by an ever-increasing number of people in a finite-sized world,” Turner told CNBC’s Bob Pisani. “The resources of the planet just can’t keep up with the demand and I’m afraid this going to be more commonplace. I’m afraid we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. It’s very complicated I do want to say.”
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“We’ve had warnings for a number of years,” Turner said. “Grain stocks have been dropping every year for the last 10 years or pretty close to that – the reserves. And, the environment in so many different areas is being – the pressure being put on it by the ever-increasing number of people and the number of people using more stuff and more energy – that’s what ‘s leading to global climate change and the over-fishing of the oceans,” he added. Continue reading »
Tags: cannibalism, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, Global Warming, Malaria, Ted Turner, U.N., WTO
Climate change could lead to a heatwave in the south-east of England killing 3,000 people within the next decade, a Department of Health report said today.It put the chances of a heatwave of that severity happening by 2017 at 25%.
Without preventative action, the report said that a nine-day heatwave, with temperatures averaging at least 27 degrees over 24 hours, would cause 3,000 immediate deaths, with another 3,350 people dying from heat-related conditions during the summer.
It predicted that there would be an increase in skin cancers due to increased exposure to sunlight and that, over the next half century, air pollution could lead to an extra 1,500 deaths and hospital admissions a year.
While malaria outbreaks were likely to remain rare, the report - Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2008 - said health authorities would need to be alert to the dangers posed by possible larger outbreaks of malaria in continental Europe.
Eggborough power station, near Selby. The report says climate change could lead to a heatwave in the south-east of England killing 3,000 people. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Tags: climate change, Department of Health, Global Warming, Health Effects, Health Protection Agency, Heat Wave, Malaria, pollution, skin cancer, U.K.
