Misunderstanding Risk: A More Dangerous World – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in February 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Assets, Catastrophes, Concentration, Dangerous World, Earthquake, Haiti, High Risk, Misunderstanding, Natural Disasters, New Decade, Newsweek, Omen, Population, Risk, Risk Areas, Slovic

The earthquake in Haiti is an omen for what the new decade has in store. We will see more natural disasters, and of larger scale, in the coming years. The trend is already accelerating: more than half of the planet’s 20 costliest catastrophes since 1970 have occurred since 2001. Because of the world’s quickly growing [...]

Bolivia Confirms Plans to Explore for Uranium

Posted by Matt in May 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Americas, Nuclear, Beltran, Bolivia, Bolivian Government, Concentration, Freddy, National Mining, Phosphates, Provincial Government, Uranium

The Bolivian government confirmed Thursday that the provincial government of Potosi has a project in the works to explore for uranium at an old mine.
National Mining Director Freddy Beltran told Efe that efforts will be carried out to find uranium at the Cotaje mine; uranite (any of the uranium phosphates) was produced there in 1974, [...]

A tidal wave of discontent threatens China

Posted by Matt in January 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, beijing, China, Chinese Government, Chinese Money, Concentration, Consumers, Country Population, Discontent, Disparity, Drowning Man, Economic Crisis, Foreign Currency Reserve, Government Money, Incomes, People, Tidal Wave, Trillion

The whole world is suffering from an economic crisis. Some in the West, like a desperate drowning man clutching at a straw, have said the Chinese Government has a lot of money, let us beg them to save us from the crisis. But they do not realise that the Government in Beijing does not know [...]