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POPSRoyal Dutch Shell to go to Trail for Complicity in Torture and Murder of Nigerian Protestersby
zizzy Yesterday 4:32 PM 
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Nigeria has been chief among Shell’s assets for many years. Critics charge that with the aim of production at any cost, regardless of the damage to the surrounding people and land, Shell disrupted thousands of lives and wreaked havoc on the environment. In the early 1990’s, the people of Nigeria began to protest. Shell made payments and provided arms to security forces that they knew to be abusive to local communities. The military government violently repressed the demonstrations and arrested and bribed witnesses. Nine leaders of the demonstrations were murdered, including the aforementioned well-known activist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
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POPSclimate change and poverty A tool for understanding the impacts of climate change on low-income and minority communities. How do you preach the importance of preventive measures to increasingly drastic change in weather patterns, that results in action, when you are working with people who are dealing with constant crisis not clearly linked with the environment?
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POPSU.S. Corporations are Ugly Americans American corporations pay foreign countries for rights to extract oil, gas, and minerals from within their borders. Those governments have done nothing to regulate oil company practices that pollute the environment and otherwise endanger the lives of local residents. The Bush administration, in their typically arrogant, misguided, neocon, "corporations-can-do-no-wrong" attitude, have turned a blind eye to how U.S. corporations (as representatives of our country) have done little to provide for the locals needs and security. The security for these U.S. corporations are local military who use villagers as forced laborers and freely rape local women and children. U.S. corporations, stalwarts of democracy and human rights that they are, also turn a blind eye as long as they can keep their bottom line healthy.
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POPSEAT LESS MEAT- HELP THE ENVIRONMENT Being a vegetarian, for that and other reasons, some twenty years, It would be a reasonable thing for all to curb their consumption of all meats and fish. For those who need ideas for alternative, really good food, let me know.
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POPSPrince 'Cuts the Crap' on GM Crops Perhaps theres something to be said for the monarchy after all.. governments farm the people, multinationals farm the governments, and big Pharma milks the whole lot....
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POPSCoral Reefs-The Oceans Canary is Dying Living in Florida gives me a first hand look every time I dive. Great sadness for all Marine life but the Reefs are like the Oceans Canary. An excellent measure of man made destruction.
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POPSWeather Warfare: The Ultimate Stealth WMD is Real Bottom quote is from U.S. Air Force. It's real. Good article, documented for the skeptics. The significant expansion in America's weather warfare arsenal, which is a priority of the Department of Defense is not a matter for debate or discussion. While, environmentalists blame the Bush administration for not having signed the Kyoto protocol, the issue of "weather warfare", namely the manipulation of weather patterns for military use is never mentioned.
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POPSMany regimes are playing lip service to conservation Many regimes are now trying to tap the rising concern of the public in a devious way. These regimes simply have found a new ploy to orchestrate a situation which will be see biodiversity wrecked and a new method of exploiting natural resources. At the same time they present a facade to the public which is designed to deceive!
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POPSVulnerability of Web and World A world without internet is almost inconceivable, In an article in Gigaom, however, 10 ways of how it might die are described. Even the survival of our whole world on the long term is unsure. An article in Discover discusses "20 ways the world could end". All these desasters are listed below.
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POPSThe Clean Energy Scam But the basic problem with most biofuels is amazingly simple, given that researchers have ignored it until now: using land to grow fuel leads to the destruction of forests, wetlands and grasslands that store enormous amounts of carbon. Deforestation accounts for 20% of all current carbon emissions. So unless the world can eliminate emissions from all other sources-- it needs to reduce deforestation or risk an environmental catastrophe. And saving forests is probably an impossibility so long as vast expanses of cropland are used to grow modest amounts of fuel. The biofuels boom, in short, is one that could haunt the planet for generations--and it's only getting started. One groundbreaking new study in Science concluded that when this deforestation effect is taken into account, corn ethanol and soy biodiesel produce about twice the emissions of gasoline. The growing backlash against biofuels is a product of the law of unintended consequences.
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POPSBio-fuels are a disaster We are wrecking our rainforests and depleting our agricultural land while fueling astronomic fuel increases to keep gas guzzling vehicles on the road - it's crazy!
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POPSTop British Scientist Warns Against Biofuels This now threatens to reverse a half century of gains not only against world hunger, but also in holding the line against conversion of undeveloped land. This is partly due to the diversion of corn to biofuels. ... Meanwhile, European demand for biofuels to replace gasoline is fueling plans for massive clearing of rainforests for palm-oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia. ... Ironically, much of the hysteria over global warming is itself fueled by concerns that it may drive numerous species to extinction and increase hunger worldwide, especially in developing countries. Yet the biofuel solution would only make bad matters worse on both counts."
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POPSWe really must protect our remaining rainforests. The World is poised to totally wreck its delicate ecosystem and the results could be catastrophic to us all. Already Mother Nature is expressing its anger in a multitude of ways as can be plainly seen to all but the myopic amongst us. The next few years are pivotal in that we have to arrest the sheer momentum of destruction and learn to live with nature as opposed to fighting it. To fight Mother Nature is to lose we are mere pawns and if you doubt that then look to the heavens on a starlit night - Nature when challenged can be ruthless.
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