Nargis Imagery From Asia Pacific & other Organizations

May 12, 2008

via SDI Asia Pacific List

Myanmar: Forecasting Worked, Mitigation - Response Failed Again, Vector 1 Media.  Bref, we can model til the cows come home, and the models can be great, but if the people on the ground do not have the capacity to understand or want to hear what is being told, the warnings and the forecasts, then we see rising death tolls, just like in Burma right now.  It is not a math or science problem, it is a people problem.

ohoh! China and a post US world

Government of China Moto:

Enrich yourselves, but leave the driving to us

 

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria.  He states that the US will do well as China and India rise for the following 4 reasons.

  1. Momentum and adaptability
  2. Industries of the future, info, bio, nano,
  3. Higher education is the best industry
  4. US demographics are young, immigration brings in 1 000 000 legally
This looks like a good read.  Who writes books like this for Canada?