Don’t Worry About Trump. In his own mind he will be OK.
January 06, 2021 | No Comments
Thinking about Trump’s entrance into the Presidential Race in America in late 2015, coming down the escalator in Trump Tower with Melania at his side, sparked a flashback to a symbolic staircase scene. I have…
‘Mask-wearing’ as a Social Invention: Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic
December 29, 2020 | 1 Comment
“A social invention is a new [concept], law, organization or procedure that changes the ways in which people relate to themselves or to each other, either individually or collectively.” The following images provide examples of…
Do they give a Nobel Prize for Bullying?
June 03, 2018 | No Comments
Update: I wrote the comments that follow 2 years ago, about half way into the Trump presidency. The US President’s proverbial Bully Pulpit had been converted by Trump’s operating style into the fact that a…
Mexico Hurricane Patricia
October 23, 2015 | No Comments
México.- protection is important to emphasize that we can not skip hydrometerological concerns. The magnitude of this phenomenon we have never seen in this country, there is a history of hurricanes we’ve had in the…
Expert Forum Video on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Antalya, Turkey 2015
June 08, 2015 | No Comments
Disasters occur when natural extremes encounter communities who are ill-prepared to cope with these forces. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies outline preventative measures to reduce the impacts of foreseeable hazardous events. Time and time…
GUEST EDITORIAL “Politicians need to get their act together on climate change“ Justus Morisse (Germany)
August 30, 2014 | No Comments
“Politicians need to get their act together on climate change.“ This quote from Chancellor Angela Merkel´s climate advisor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is almost two years old now and was originally pinpointed at the global warming…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Another Country
September 16, 2011 | No Comments
Reflections from my hotel, about to leave for the airport to go home… I came to realize that the mighty US dollar is mighty no more. Its value compared to other currencies seems to be…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Politics
The Arctic: The Achilles heel of the world
September 03, 2011 | No Comments
…as we have come to know it People of the 1900s learned to live with their climate regimes, from local to global. They adjusted their activities as necessary to cope with extremes and variabilities on…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Climate Affairs
Words of Wisdom from the Flat Earth US Congress
August 04, 2011 | No Comments
Senator Inhoff (R-Oklahoma) has been an outspoken critic of the global science consensus (not unanimity) on the human contribution to global warming of the atmosphere. there is nothing that can be said or discovered that…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Climate Affairs
The Cult of the Anti-Personality
July 20, 2011 | No Comments
Houston, errr, no, America, we have a problem! The concept of the “cult of personality” has become well-known in the general public in recent years, having become a part of the “ordinary knowledge” of the…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Human Condition
Youth of the World Unite (via social networks)!
June 03, 2011 | No Comments
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about youth. The term “youth” really has several overlapping definitions but generally individuals between the ages of 15 and 30 can be considered youth. To be honest, to…
Posted in All Fragilecologies, Capacity Building
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