December 14, 2007 - ...who suffer or who benefit least deserve help from those who benefit most.” More specifically, the Declaration stresses fairness in a world that is being radically reshaped by the forces of globalization. As stated: “The central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world’s people. For while globalization offers great opportunities, at present its benefits are very unevenly shared, while its costs are unevenly distributed.” This is indeed the problem. Globalization creates wealth and this is good. But globalization has no rules that guarantee fair distribution of this wealth. Health and...
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Shell breaks its 10 year promise not to develop World Heritage Sites
January 31, 2013 - ...break its promise then on this world wonder site as it is considered for listing. Their environmental reputation is being risked by continuing to push ahead with the Arrow LNG plant on Curtis Island. People may presume that Shell is a company that can’t be trusted to protect world heritage sites. Changing the name from Shell LNG to Arrow LNG is not going to protect their credibility when they own 50% of the venture. UNESCO stated in the mission report ANNEX X “It is noted that the leading commitment to the principle of World Heritage Sites not being subject to...
How Peak Oil will affect Health Care
July 6, 2008 - ...access to health care (Marwick, 2002). Cuba manages to run a health service with a ratio of one doctor to every 174 people, whereas the UK has one doctor to every 600 (Pietroni, 2001). Cuban health care takes just 6.3% of the nation’s GDP to run, compared with around 8% in the UK and 15% in the US (World Health Organization, 2007). Cuba also runs large training schools and exports doctors to other countries. However, Cuban doctors are not paid disproportionately to others in society, typically earning $240 (Carroll, 2007) to $300 per annum (Bernal, 2007) – about twice the...
After Hours Webinar Series
March 29, 2021 - ...replace green places as we have moved inside and into virtual worlds. This change has not been good for us, or our planet. Lifestyle-related diseases and mental health problems are overwhelming health systems everywhere. Meanwhile, outside, the natural world is falling apart with climate change and mass extinctions of plants and animals. The solution is simple: we need to reconnect to nature. Join mother, nature lover and GP, Dr Dimity Williams, as she discusses her new book, Nature, Our Medicine: How the natural world sustains us, with DEA’s Chair, Dr Kate Wylie. Incorporating science, history, stories, and alternative cultural knowledge,...
Polluted by profit: Johann Hari on the real Climategate
May 22, 2010 - ...she started to work for CI in 2006. She told me: “About a week or two after I started, I went to the big planning meeting of all the organisation’s media teams, and they started talking about this supposedly great new project they were running with BP. But I had read in the newspaper the day before that the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] had condemned BP for running the most polluting plant in the whole country… But nobody in that meeting, or anywhere else in the organisation, wanted to talk about it. It was a taboo. You weren’t supposed to...