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Show a / - eae ee orcas RA REE BULLETIN THE a eee es of DOOM! BOARD Tidbits from around the world that confirm our simple premise---that this is the End of Civilization as we know it. The ebullience with which Chinese investors have dived into the mar- Today, kets of Shanghai and Shenzhen, unleashing the huge savings in personal a bank accounts, has made China home to the world’s most expensivecom- United panies. China has the biggest bank, insurance company, telecommunications carrier value. By 5 and airline by market : ; that measure,: it has five of the world’s 10 largest companies. [International Herald Tribune] | : 2S WASHINGTON (AP) - A top intelligence official TRENTON, NJ. consumes oil which - Use — at a faster pace than among senior citizens, according to an Tuesd ay. E + : aieli x Perts oint to higher rates televisions of obesity, cell phones. igh bloo do today. and high cholesterol problems tributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas. While among young people. fee average Briton. ... lad Patzek from University of California Berkeley, US, said: “In the long-run, the planet cannot afford to produce biofuels be- U Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world’s governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process — thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years — is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse. The warning is just one of a whole series of alarming conclusions in a new report published collected for recycling in the U.S. each year ends up overseas. Workers in countries such as China, India and Ni- the report says. BBC year, seven times as a Ss ig B i me activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 to 400,000 tons of electronics Climate change could cause severe crop losses in South Asia and southern Africa over the next 20 years, a study in the journal Science says. The findings suggest southern Africa could lose more than 30% of its main crop, maize, by 2030. In South Asia losses of many regional staples, such as rice, millet and maize could top 10%, ee federal figures obscure a dropout epidemic so severe that only about 70 percent of the one million American stu“ dents who start ninth grade later.” NY Times The burning deforestation timbermen into. thetrains, or — each year rotting at the of hands graduate trees of four years that comes ranchers, — sends more heat-trapping carbon atmosphere chan all=the world’s trucks and automobiles. Forest with farmers, dioxide planes, by the official Intergovernmental Panel on-Climate Change (IPCC), which last month shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore. : destruction accounts for about 20 percent of manmade emissions, second only to burning of fossil fuels for electricity and heat. Conversely, healthy forests absorb carbon dioxide and store carbon. MSNBC About 50 percent of oil demand is for transportation, and auto ownership in the developing countries is growing swiftly, especially in India and China. Goldman Sachs estimates that by 2050, they could have 1.1 billion cars on the road, up from just 20 million three years ago. John Hess (CEO Hess Oil) The Stern Report, no less, warned that rainforest destruction alone would, in the next four years, release more carbon into the atmosphere than every flight from the dawn of aviation until 2025. BBC K Z IMU COMMUNTTHYERADIO 90.1 & 106.7 FM IN MOAB, UTAH AND THE WORLD Our spring radiothon is pril 2-12. Pledge online at from www.kzmu.org 100% WIND-POWERED Our mission is to inform, delight, educate and entertain. Thanks for all the years of support in realizing that mission; for making the community radio wish come true. as they are cause We're going to run out of the land and water and environmental resources. In addition, because of the land use changes, drying up peat-swamps, burning tropical forest, these biofuels involve upfront enormous emissions of greenhouse gases that will never be rex couped by their later use,” he told BBC News. (BBC) MSNBC there are no precise figures, themselves and the environment to a cocktail of toxic chemicals. [Yahoo Finance] hte (Reuters) pressure But chances are they're con- exposing Americans are among the largest consumers of water on the planet, industry report being released Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, recyclables, a_ of medicines by young aval appears to be rising rapidly — other the pressure telligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private burners and their bare hands to extract metals, glass and only ter a Japan communications and financial information. geria then use hammers, gas as burns and | cholesterol and blood SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- much of oil and other natural resources. The average American373,900 uses gallons of wa- NY Times Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Don- and as States, duarter of the world’’s oil ©2ch day. By 2030, India and China together will import as_ mien ot bas: fhe. cagkedieearss says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. ald Kerr, the principal deputy director of nationalin- China third April 2 is KZMU's 16th birthday!!! LISTEN TO KZMU,, anywhere on Planet earth & Beyond, on our website. www.kzmu.org |
