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2009-05-29 "[C]limate change is not something waiting to happen. It is impacting seriously the lives of many people around the world.”
The migration of people from newly uninhabitable areas presents a security issue that needs to be addressed by the United Nations Security Council.
“This is one of the reasons why I've described climate change as all encompassing.
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This threat to our health, this threat to food production, this threat to security. It raises political tensions, it will have people on the move -- and they are on the move -- and many more which will bring tensions.”
-- Kofi Annan, Global Humanitarian Forum's president, former U.N. Secretary-General, speaking to CNN's Becky Anderson in London
2008-11-15 The London Independent headlined an article titled; "Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel." Writer Donald Macintyre referred to a leaked Red Cross report he called "explosive."

It chronicled "the devastating effect of the siege that Israel imposed after Hamas (took control of Gaza) in June 2007 and notes that the dramatic fall in living standards triggered a shift in diet that will damage the long-term health of (Gaza's population). Alarming deficiencies (showed up) in iron, vitamin A and vitamin D."

The report goes on to say that "heavy restrictions on all major sectors of Gaza's economy, compounded by a cost of living increase of at least 40%, is causing progressive deterioration in food security for up to 70 per cent of (the) population. That in turn is forcing people to cut household expenditures down to survival levels."

Chronic malnutrition is rising steadily, and "micronutrient deficiencies are of great concern." Since 2007, the reported cited a switch to "low cost/high energy" cereals, sugar and oil and away from higher-cost animal products, fresh fruits and vegetables. This type diet assures long-term harmful consequences for people on it.

The Red Cross said that "the (18 month) embargo has had a devastating effect for a large proportion of households who have had to make major changes on the composition of their food basket." They now rely 80% on cereals, sugar and oil. In addition, people are selling assets, cutting back on clothing and children's education, scavenging for discarded items, and doing virtually anything to survive.

The report refers to economic disintegration and that prolonging the current situation risks permanently damaging households and their capacity to recover. The study was conducted from May to July 2008.
2008-08 Black Americans are seven times more likely to be infected than whites.
-- According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2008-08 In the USA, roughly 1 million people are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus.
About 15,000 to 18,000 Americans die every year of AIDS.
-- According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2008-08 Globally, 33 million people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS and 2 million die of it each year.
-- According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2007-11 "More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities. Electronically enabled teams in networks, robots with artificial intelligence, and other noncarbon life-forms will make financial, health, educational, and even political decisions for us. Reason: Technologies are increasing the complexity of our lives and human workers' competency is not keeping pace well enough to avoid disasters due to human error."
-- "Outlook 2008". The Futurist. Nov-Dec 2007
2007-08-15 "It is never just water for water's sake, but water for poverty's sake. Clean water and improved sanitation can save the poor time, improve their health and provide them income opportunities."
-- Arjun Thapan, author of the report titled "Asia Water Watch 2015"
2007-07-02 China’s State Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) and health ministry asked the World Bank to cut the calculations of premature deaths (750,000 people) from the report “Cost of Pollution in China”, when a draft was finished last year.
-- according to World Bank advisers and Chinese officials.
2007-07 Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China.
-- World Bank research
2007-07 * High air-pollution levels in Chinese cities is leading to the premature deaths of 350,000-400,000 people each year.
* About 300,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to poor air indoors
* About 60,000-odd premature deaths were attributable to poor-quality water, largely in the countryside, from severe diarrhoea, and stomach, liver and bladder cancers.
-- World Bank, 2007-07

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