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Dhaka’s lifeblood is dying.

The Buriganga river, one of the four around Bangladesh’s capital, is now one of the most polluted in the world.

Reuters Guy Desmond reports.

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Air pollution in an unfortunate consequence of China’s recent rapid development. The 2008 Olympics are focusing global attention on Beijing’s air quality. Despite government efforts to control the problem, it remains a serious challenge for both China and the world.

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Vandana_Shiva_in_Conversation

Environmental researcher and activist Vandana Shiva points out that as India has taken on greater production of global goods, it has also taken on a proportionate amount of global pollution.

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Since the 1980s, Shiva has championed the anti-globalization movement and is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization. Her research and resultant advocacy explores the applicability of traditional Vedic knowledge and ecology to alleviate poverty in developing countries.

She is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, an organization whose research has validated the ecological value of traditional farming and whose efforts have been instrumental in fighting destructive building projects in India.

Shiva has also been active in repositioning women in the debate on development, for which she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.”

Shiva has authored over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals and books include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Monocultures of the Mind, and Water Wars. - City Arts and Lectures

Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin’s Press, 1989).

Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya (”nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .

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Hong Kong’s silver lining is facing a very big cloud on the horizon and it’s very polluted. Air Quality in Hong Kong is getting worse and local activists are asking the Government and the people what they are willing to do about it.

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Tom Lehrer on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer/e/B000AQ1ECM/ref=ntt_dp_mus_hqp

Tom Lehrer songs on iTunes (outside the U.S.):

http://www.apple.com/no/search/ipoditunes/?q=Tom+Lehrer

Again, Lehrer was ahead of his time. Pollution was not a hot topic in the sixties. But if Lehrer thought the world was polluted many years ago, I really wonder what he thinks today.

Lehrer said “OK” to”The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel”, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it’s free in the YouTube flash video format. Do NOT ask for any video originals, ever again.

Click on the Lehrer icon and visit the channel’s front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to a NEW channel support page:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/

© 2009 Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 10th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam

Sometimes when this video is played back the technical audio/video quality is even worse than the average YouTube crap. It wasn’t like that when published in 2007. Has it become worse? I don’t know. Please try to add &fmt=6 to the page address and reload the page. You might get a better playback. This video will be republished later.

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BBC News Article on Environmental Issues - Interested? Join the debate at Fair Air: http://www.google.co.uk/group/fairair?hl-en-GB

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