Cassandras of Climate
10. November 2009 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Read the World, extension4The looming climate disaster should be our dominant political and policy concern. But it manifestly isn’t. Why not?
Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘ disaster ’
More shame on the Burmese junta
23. Mai 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World(The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008
No one wants a confrontation, but the world cannot sit by while more people die in Myanmar because the junta refuses to cooperate.
Send in the latrines
20. Mai 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the WorldBy Rose George (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008
Food, shelter and clean water are what aid agencies emphasize. But human waste remains a huge threat to Burmese survivors of the recent disaster.
The Burmese generals and crimes against humanity
16. Mai 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the World(The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
China must use all its influence to press Myanmar ’s generals to open up to relief efforts.
Aid at the point of a gun
16. Mai 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the WorldBy Robert D. Kaplan (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
A humanitarian invasion of Myanmar is militarily doable.
Bowring: Disasters, natural and man-made
16. Mai 2008 | Von atsil | Kategorie: English, Read the WorldBy Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
What combination of nature, chance, human activity and government competence determines the death toll in natural disasters?