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What A Week It Was: Apocadocuments from
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ApocaDocuments (10) gathered this week:
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Sun, Dec 9, 2007
from TheDay (CT):
Cheap Oil is So Yesterday. Time to Start Writing Expensive Oil into Our Plans?
"Competition for scarce resources will drive up the future price of raw materials: The building blocks of progress -- fossil fuel energy, metals, land - are more abundant and cheaper now than they will be in the future. Resource nationalism means that certain strategic materials may not be available for import -- at any price -- in the not-too-distant future. We should reconsider the future value of energy, raw materials, farmland and water." ...
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Cheap everything is so yesterday.
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Sun, Dec 9, 2007
from Xinhua (China):
Scientists: More than 20 species alien to China invaded country in last decade
"Wan Fanghao, an official with the ministry of agriculture, said some alien species have already caused disasters in the country.
The American White Moth, native to North America and first detected in Northeast China's Liaoning Province in 1979, is threatening forests and crops in 116 counties of six provinces and municipalities in China including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Liaoning, according to the State Forestry Administration (SFA).
The moth denude a tree, and consume vegetables and crops in days. It boasts a strong reproduction ability. A female moth can lay some 2,000 eggs in one go, and can breed 30 million to 200 million descendants a year, according to biologists." ...
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Finally, something the US can export to China!
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from Sydney Morning Herald (Australia):
Academic seeks 100 percent greenhouse target
Nations need to cut greenhouse pollution by 50 per cent by 2025 and 100 per cent by 2050 to avoid climatic disaster, an academic says.
Climate change researcher Ian McGregor said the kind of emissions cuts being discussed at the UN conference on Bali would fail to avert catastrophic climate change. ...
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Wait, you mean we don't get to give this problem to our children?
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from Health Day News:
Environmental Toxin Collects in Breast Milk
"Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which a chemical known as perchlorate can collect in breast milk and cause cognitive and motor deficits in newborns." ...
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Major score for Nestle's Baby Formula!
more on Perchlorate
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from AllAfrica.com:
Uganda: Cabinet Meets Over Ebola Epidemic
"At Mulago Hospital, where Dr. Jonah Kule, a medic from Bundibugyo, died of suspected Ebola on Tuesday night, some sections were paralysed yesterday as health workers feared to handle patients without appropriate protective gear. In the casualty ward, Saturday Vision saw empty glove boxes and plastic containers meant to carry disinfectants. By about 11:00am, a crowd of patients was outside the casualty ward waiting in vain to be called in, while others went home frustrated. In emergency ward 3B, some workers wore masks, white gumboots and gloves, while others did not. Meanwhile, in the out-patient department in Old Mulago, work was going on normally except for the low turn up of patients compared to other days. The hospital director could not be reached for comment as he was in marathon meetings." ...
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hmmm... in a plague scenario, would I want to be crowding toward a hospital?
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from TheCheers (Estonia):
Method Man certain Britney's balding signalled the Apocalypse
"The rocker recently said that the 'Toxic' singer's decision to go bald marked a total change in the music industry.
"The whole music industry is twisted on it's f**king head. And Britney Spears shaved her head - that's how I know the Apocalypse is coming," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying." ...
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When a high priest of a belief tribe says something like that, take note. We hadn't realized that Celebrities had their own belief systems, but we're not surprised.
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from Cebu Daily News (Philippines):
Manila: Study sees lack of clean water by 2025
"The Philippines' water resources are fast deteriorating with rapid urbanization, with only about 33 percent of river systems still suitable as a supply source and up to 58 percent of groundwater now contaminated, a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) research shows." ...
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By that time, the hurricanes may be frequently filling localized cisterns.
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from ScienceDaily:
Ocean Plankton Reducing Greenhouse Gases By Using More Carbon Dioxide
"Microscopically tiny marine organisms known as plankton increase their carbon uptake in response to increased concentrations of dissolved CO2 and thereby contribute to a dampening of the greenhouse effect on a global scale. An international group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany documented this biological mechanism in a natural plankton community for the first time." ...
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For every action, there's often an equal and contraindicated reaction.
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from AllHands.com:
Uganda: 'Hiv/Aids is Nothing Compared to Plague'
"This hut had to be at a good distance of not less than 200 metres. Relatives would bring food and pour it on a banana leaf about 100 metres from the 'condemned' patient, who would then pick it or eat it from there. This was meant to cut out any direct contact with healthy people.
Often, these patients would die at night and would be buried just next to the hut by only family members. Neighbours would shun such homes for a long time.
Just like happens when a disease breaks out and is yet to be identified, rumours of witchcraft abounded as regards plague.
But it was the colonial government which brought an end to the pandemic when it exploited cultural beliefs to wipe out plague. The cure, the government said, lay in the tail of an undesirable rodent that is a menace in our homes - the rat. And it was real." ...
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Try that in a high-rise.
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Sat, Dec 8, 2007
from BBC:
Global Systems may 'face collapse'
"Current global consumption levels could result in a large-scale ecosystem collapse by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned." ...
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Might make those tulip bulbs a great investment!
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