Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off.
Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality
Source:
http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible catastrophe/3203808/story.html
The BP catastrophe should be a wake-up call for Americans to be concerned citizens rather than just corporate consumers.
As American revolutionary patriot Tom Paine wrote in 1796, "I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it."
Source:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/ed-tant/29621/drilling-disaster-is-a-corporate-crime
Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess.
According to internal BP documents obtained by Truthout, and after interviewing more than a dozen employees over the past month, the Prudhoe Bay oil field is at risk.
The poorly built homes, buildings and roads of Haiti were no match for the 7 magnitude quake that hit the country Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking to CNN En Espanol, the Haitian Ambassador to the US expressed that such as catastrophe "had been expected."
Source:
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/12/haitian-mbassador-we-had-been-expecting-this-catastrophe/
