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Monday, September 7, 2009
Humanitarian Work
Recently watched The Fog of War, the memoir-documentary-interview of Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense through most of the Vietnam War, and longtime leader of the Ford Motor Company, among other things.
Amazing how little I knew about the USA's WWII firebombings of Japanese cities, which dwarfed the civilian casualties of the atomic bombs.
So this leads to the question: Are we trying to fix the problem? What is the USA's current conflict prevention, conflict mitigation strategy?
Not an easy question to answer. But Wuryati Morris has a good suggestion for how to start figuring it out. Wury says that her employer, "Development Alternatives Initiatives," takes on just about every kind of 2-5 year development-sector contract that is available, except for heavy industry tasks.
By syllogism, DAI's list of projects should be representative of USA bureaus' overall portfolio and agenda.
There certainly are a lot of them.
Amazing how little I knew about the USA's WWII firebombings of Japanese cities, which dwarfed the civilian casualties of the atomic bombs.
So this leads to the question: Are we trying to fix the problem? What is the USA's current conflict prevention, conflict mitigation strategy?
Not an easy question to answer. But Wuryati Morris has a good suggestion for how to start figuring it out. Wury says that her employer, "Development Alternatives Initiatives," takes on just about every kind of 2-5 year development-sector contract that is available, except for heavy industry tasks.
By syllogism, DAI's list of projects should be representative of USA bureaus' overall portfolio and agenda.
There certainly are a lot of them.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
"Reservoir-induced earthquake"
My mother sent out an email about this, and I was skeptical at first, but I guess it might be a real concept.
Also,
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE55I0U720090619
Earthquakes that are ready to go can be triggered by many different things such as mine activity, or injection of fluid into an oil well to push the oil. Recently there has been a lot of discussion among geologists about the possibility of tidal triggering of quakes.http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/chinaquake/
Most earth scientists agree that reservoir-triggered earthquakes do happen...
Also,
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE55I0U720090619
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