This will no doubt raise passions on both sides of the fence as it always does. Anyway I’d like us to think about it, and to provide underpinning evidence to support each argument. Please think deeply about it. Thanks, Mike 🙂
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/zambia-to-lift-ban-hunting-lions-leopards-big-cats
This is what these times are actually about: just who is in charge of our globalised world?
This status and outlook synthesis just arrived, file is about 16 mb and available in several languages
Image: blogs.worldbank.org: Incense stick production in Hue, Vietnam. The country could be one of the biggest winners of a potential Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Source - Austronesian Expeditions.
As TTIP came up recently in Mike’s post, I made a search and found plenty of writings discussing all the potential dangers on the horizon resulting from these trade negotiations. This article TPP & TTIP: More Questions Than Answers on the World Bank’s website is an especially good one for comparing the two.
The planned Trans-Pacific Partnership would allow the top global corporation to “order compensation for any lost profits found to result from a nation’s regulations”. This include of course situations when such regulations are to protect environment or specific habitat.
Hi Friends,
Today people of Switzerland had the opportunity to vote about three topics, one of them is called the ‘Ecopop initiative’.
The Ecopop group (www.ecopop.ch) objective was to limit the immigration influx to the country and to force the Swiss government to allocate and spend considerable amount of money to education so lowering the fertility rate in the developing countries.
Sky News: Switzerland vote on immigration cap
It seems they couldn’t win, still as far as I can see from the news they gathered above 30%. In my view, all of those in Switzerland who seconded the Ecopop initiative will be open to our messages as well.
