Pakistanis should live away from flood areas: UN agency
The UN disaster prevention agency said Friday that communities should have been kept away from flood-exposed river banks in Pakistan, as it underlined the human hand in a string of catastrophes.Episcopal Life Online - OPINION
"If people had not settled on the river banks, definitely the disaster would have been less, because that is the main cause of the disaster," said Salvano Briceno, director of the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
The ISDR also pointed to landslides in China, wildfires in Russia and drought in Niger as examples of how communities and towns were increasingly placed or left in harm's way.
When I last wrote here, I titled the piece "Copenhagen: Jesus with a Bullhorn." I wrote about why international climate negotiations in Copenhagen mattered. And I suggested that if Jesus were here in the flesh today, he may well have greeted the negotiators at the airport with a bullhorn, exhorting them to develop a strong international treaty to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Ah, another denomination enlisting 'Jesus' to save the world.
"The key goal of the Yale project: “Bridging Science and Action.” (The science includes the AGW hypothesis and the action aims for limits on CO2 ‘pollution.’) To that end, they desire to “Expand religious coalitions on the environment.”
Seems the Yale project is doing its job, with one of its objectives: "Recognize the way that religion and politics mirror each other in the United States, and be prepared to work together both covertly and overtly on climate change.”
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/03/climate-confusion-at-the-national-association-of-evangelicals/
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