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Show THE ZEPHYR/FEBRUARY-MARCH THE BULLETIN 2008 BOARD of DOOM! Tidbits from around the world that confirm our simple premise---that this is the End of Civilization as we know it. In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated that $1.6 trillion is needed over a five-year period to bring the nation’s vast infrastructure network up to good condition. The Federal Highway Administration 2006 report says $79 billion a year is needed just to maintain highways and bridges and another $131.7 billion is required annually to improve them.” (MSNBC) Os nd Women in 63 countries across five continents - not including the US - were overweight or obese in 2006. BBC 2 A quarter of China's greenhouse gas emis: sions are — produced ac d ki making £e0ds exporme to the West, from a report — gij-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to government- a UK funded body has found. _ The gray crowned crane, Uganda’s iconic nation- al bird, Us-dwindlang in number “as “witch. .doc= 11 and poachers tors” legally take POLiOns FOR (National News) 777" governments across Asia, from China and India to Indonesia and the Philippines, are turning mainly to coal to meet their soaring electricity needs and prevent blackouts, even a5 though coal produces more global warming gases than any other major source of electricity. China’s increase has been the most substantial. The country built 114,000 megawatts of fos- the in Britain has 75,000 megawatts y year. For comparison, E & operation, built over a span of decades. NYTimes more this 95,000 megawatts complete P 5 Even if we could stop adding to greenhouse gases tomorrow, the earth would continue warming for decades — and remain hot for centuries. We would still face the threat of water from melting glaciers lapping at our doorsteps. (Ken Caldeira, scientist, Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology). é (gaA fue Gi — birds err Ve i pets. and Geographic x oe ar 3 ee S Hi GAUHATI, India - Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinkinc, ice beer in India’s remote northeast, a wildlife C icial said Tuesday. MSNBC j yal i gulls = a LC \ | |