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LURCHING FROM ONE DISASTER TO THE NEXT
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TORONTO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) - The world is ill-prepared for the human toll from the expected increase in floods, droughts and extreme storms and hurricanes on the horizon.
So say experts like Peter Walker, director of the Tufts University-based Feinstein International Center near Boston. In late 2008, his organization authored a report titled "Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change" for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The changing weather that produces intense lightning in East Africa interrupts the path of trade winds, which may result in hurricanes.

Part of the formation of hurricanes is caused by the rising sea temperature.

POLAR BEARS LOSING GROUND
BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov 17, 2006 (IPS) - The iconic animal of the frozen north, the polar bear, is starving to death because climate change is melting the Arctic Ocean sea ice.
Polar bears hunt seals almost exclusively and do so from the sea ice. But in the past five years, summer sea ice coverage has declined by 20 percent due to warming temperatures. Although excellent swimmers, the bears are not very good at catching seals in the water, so changes in the ice are making it difficult for these giant bears to survive - several have recently been found drowned and to have died of starvation.

TITLE: A PATH TOO FAR
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RAIN FOREST DESTRUCTION / HABITAT LOSS

"If present rates of destruction continue, half our remaining rainforests will be gone by the year 2025, and by 2060 there will be no rainforests remaining."

Every second . . we lose an area the size of two football fields!
Every minute . . we lose an area 29 times the size of the Pentagon!
Every hour . . . we lose an area 684 times larger than the New Orleans Superdome!
Every day . . . we lose an area larger than all five boroughs of New York City!
Every week . . . we lose an area twice the size of Rhode Island!
Every month . . .we lose an area the size of Belize!
EVERY YEAR . . . we lose an area more than twice the size of Florida!

ANIMAL / PLANT EXTINCTION

Researchers have found that one in four mammals is in danger of extinction--one in seven birds, one-third of amphibians, and 70 percent of plant life is threatened. / National Geographic

TITLE: COLLISION POINT (This Image was taken within the boundaries of the Everglades.)
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TITLE: PRIORITIES
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TITLE: MONUMENTS TO MADNESS (Monument Valley Future?)

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