ISSUES
THOUSANDS OF ISSUES
Not ONE single silver bullet ... the situation is complex
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... and DEATH ... wanton killing
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Monrovia, Liberia
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Darfur, Sudan
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Rwanda
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Urban degradation
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Detroit, USA
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Modern slums
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Not so modern slums
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Pollution
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Air pollution
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Land fill
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Plastic
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Land Degradation
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Mining
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Deforestation
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Desertification
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Extreme Weather Events
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Hurricanes
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Rain events / Flooding
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Ice Melt
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WHY?
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Some very nasty national leaders
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Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen
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Charles Taylor, Liberia
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Bashar al-Assad, Syria
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Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
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Idi Amin, Uganda
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Money making nasty business ...
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Viktor Bout, Arms Trafficker
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el-Chapo-Guzman, Drug Trafficker
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Sex Trafficking
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Energy Industry ... Big profits and big pollution
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Crude oil in Niger Delta
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Flaring gas in USA
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Refinery air quality
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Coal (Open pit)
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Fracking
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Oil Spills / BP
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Free enterprise oligarchs
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Carlos Slim / Grupo Carso
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Larry Ellison / Oracle
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Bill Gates / Microsoft
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Peter Thiel / PayPal etc
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook
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Jeff Bezos / Amazon
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Too much militarism
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Atomic Bomb / Mushroom Cloud
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Powerful Navy
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Air Power
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Too little development cooperation
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UN headquarters
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US State Department
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UNHCR / UN Refugee Agency
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SOCIAL MEDIA
The challenge of controlling the 'dark side'
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Google
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Facebook
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Twitter
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LAND USE
Economic value respected ... Natural value ignored
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