Skip to Main Content

Sister site: Read about the the exclusion, injury and unnecessary killing of Canadians with environmental sensitivities

Past the Tipping Point

Search

Search this site:

Navigation

Contact
Recent posts
Incoming News

Cannibalism

Cannibalism Suspect Faces Murder Trial
Armin Meiwis: Cannibal killer gets life sentence
Hindu Priests arrested for cannibalism
German cannibal faces murder charge again at trial
Cops hunt gang tagged in cannibalism

Desertification

KENYA: Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
MALI: Small Farmers in the Carbon Market
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees

Refugees

U.S.: Detained Migrant Women Shackled During Childbirth
RIGHTS-AUSTRIA: Migrants Issue Stokes Political Passions
MIGRATION: France Urges EU to Tighten Mediterranean Borders
JORDAN: Where Iraqi Women Are Also Fathers
RIGHTS-EUROPE: Military Technology to Track Down Migrants?

Palliative Care

α
Racial Differences In Hospice Use For Heart Failure
Feb 2010 - new items added
Chronic pain is a disease experts argue
Palliative Care Helps Improve Quality, Cut End-Of-Life Care Costs

Conflict Resolution

COTE D'IVOIRE: Crisis Within a Crisis Delays Elections Again
SUDAN: Bashir May Face Genocide Charges
POLITICS-SUDAN: Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections
NIGERIA: No Oil Company Will Know Peace in the Creeks
KENYA: Documenting Sexual Violence

Fleeing Catastrophe, Stuck in the Slums of Bangladesh

Posted Fri, 15/01/2010 - 12:26 by Pointer

Add new comment
ShareThis

Poll

The IPCC failed because :

it came from cultures of cost overruns

it left out behavioral sciences from the science of global warming

it failed to grasp that the tipping point was sociological

it locked horns with deniers

it remained polite and restrained in the face of outrageous lies

all of the above and more

Public Discussion

MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
Q&A: More Women Journalists Doesn’t Mean More Gender Awareness
MEDIA-ASIA: Community Radio Carves Out Space for Itself
Q&A: Brazil Leans on South America to Adopt Its Digital TV Standard
MEDIA-INDIA: More Women Now, But Few in Top Posts

Off the Grid

Seattlite Looking for Off-Grid Guidance
The Biodiesel Fuel Processor: Your Main Machine
Real World Experiences With Biodiesel
Looking for a site in Norfolk UK
Time to buy an island

Cultural Survival

Colombian leaders in London to launch ‘campaign against extinction’
Stars line up in West End to celebrate tribal peoples
Peru bars oil companies from uncontacted tribes’ reserve
Guatemala adopts indigenous rights into Constitution
UN report condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen

Use material freely and credit creators.

Human Rights

MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
MIDEAST: Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities
IRAQ: Elections Bring Joy and Uncertainty
RIGHTS-CUBA: Hunger Striker Refuses to Go into Exile
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: ‘We Will Demonstrate, As They Celebrate’