Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

• Obama going to Denmark to make Olympics pitch – but won’t go to the UN climate meetings there in December?

  Photo credit: cmaccubbin Tomorrow President Barack Obama will visit Denmark to try to raise support for Chicago’s Olympic bid for the 2016 summer games. First lady Michelle Obama arrived in Denmark earlier and will, with the support of Oprah Winfrey, …

• Uneven Development and Northern Imperialism in the making of Today’s Ecological Crisis

  What is equality and development? And what kind of influence has the environment on both of these relations? For me, environmentalism has always been about caring about the well-state and equality of everyone and everything. Al Gore said, during the …

• Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  On this day, 63 years ago, USA dropped the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, USA dropped a second nuclear bomb over Nagasaki in Japan. The bombs killed as many …

• Japan arrests environment blogger for exposing a whale meat scandal

  Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, for exposing a whale meat scandal in Japans government-sponsored whaling programme last month. According to the police the activists are “being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of …

• An end to “scientific” whaling in sight?

  Well, that’s a maybe. The Australian government is hoping that a new proposal from them will be able to cover up a loophole that let’s Japan conduct whaling for “scientific reasons”. The Australian environmental minister Peter Garett said today that …

• The never solved, never forgotten issue…

  It is a fact that more than 1000 whales and dolphins are killed every year by whalehunters, who make some endangered species head torwards extinction. Mainly Japan, with support from Norway and Iceland, refuses to obey the rules of the …

• Japan whalers brutally slaughter a whale mother and her calf

  Since Greenpeace left the Antarctic, due to low fuel, the Japanese whalers began their slaughter of whales. Australia who is strongly condemning the whale slaughter is still following the Japanese whalers. And yesterday they could release images and videos of …

• The Japanese people need to “re-examine the whaling issue”

  With the Australian government, Greenpeace and Sea Shephard watching and tracking the two Japanese whaling vessels it seems all the whales are gone. But when the Japanese whalers can’t harpoon any whales they take hostages and make illegal fuel stops …

• Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency: Part 2

  This is the final part of Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency, a two part article. A few days ago at a social function I was asked by a top US atmosphere scientist – in Australia to work with top Australian …

• Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency: Part 1

  “Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency” – Submission from Dr Gideon Polya to the Garnaut Climate Change Review Garnaut Climate Change Review, Level 2, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne, VIC 3002 This submission by a senior scientist is in response to a …