04/11/2020
How it limits our freedom and life choices
6 November 2020 (Wall Street International)* – Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? Economists analyze money-based markets. Trading is innate in human behaviour.
Karl Polanyi describes how indigenous peoples in the South Pacific traded shells in their canoe travels among these islands in his Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economics, (1968).
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04/11/2020
Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis continued to grow. Extreme weather disasters have not stalled – from cyclone Amphan in India and Bangladesh to the wildfires raging in the USA – with the poorest and most marginalized people suffering the most.
Zohora, 92, walks along a muddy road in Kholpetuya village, searching for food for her grandchildren, after Cyclone Amphan struck western coastal areas of Bangladesh on May 13, 2020. “There is no food at home. We were given some puffed rice given as relief, which we finished yesterday. Now, I am going from house to house and asking if villagers can give me some rice.” Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
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04/11/2020
3 November 2020 (UN News)* — “Super storm” Typhoon Goni has left several towns inaccessible and destroyed thousands of homes in the Philippines, the UN humanitarian wing has said, adding that relief efforts have been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: IOM | Many areas in Batangas, southern Luzon are still covered in fallen debris and floodwater due to Super Typhoon Goni (locally known as Rolly).
The Bicol region – where typhoon Goni made its landfall on Sunday [1 November 2020]– currently has some 425 active COVID-19 cases and the risk of transmission remains high, especially in typically crowded evacuation centres, according to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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04/11/2020
4 November 2020 (UNESCO)* — Though they may be rare, tsunamis are among the most devastating natural disasters. They know no coastal borders. Coastal communities – often concentrated in low-lying and highly populated areas – are the most potentially vulnerable to coastal hazards including tsunamis, with heavy human and economic losses.
International cooperation is key for deeper political and public understanding; as well as involvement in reducing our risks from these coastal natural hazards.
In December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly designated 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day to promote a global culture of tsunami awareness.
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04/11/2020
A tsunami is a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance usually associated with earthquakes occurring below or near the ocean. | PHOTO:Raeford Dwyer Photography
4 November 2020 (United Nations)* — In 2020, World Tsunami Awareness Day encourages the development of national and community-level, local disaster risk reduction strategies to save more lives against disasters. This year’s observance promotes “Sendai Seven Campaign,” target (e).
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