Word: alarms
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...constantly amazed that our current long-running demographic suicide hasn’t attracted more alarm or, failing that, at least more attention. Pope Benedict’s recent comments on the “dying” churches in the West haven’t even drawn scorn but only apathy; no one even bothers to respond to such critiques anymore. I won’t pretend to know exactly where a depopulation of churches unprecedented since the Black Death or the collapse of Rome will lead us, but I imagine it will be something like what...
...income gap among Chinese residents has been worsening since the year of 2003 and has reached the 'yellow' alarm level. Should there be no effective measures, it will reach the dangerous 'red' level in five years." ARTICLE appearing in China's Communist Party-run newspaper Study Times last week, seen as a government acknowledgement that increasing social unrest across the country might be tied to a growing gap between rich and poor...
Presented with such grave statistics and histories the natural response to hearing about the bird flu is one of great alarm. Now, consider the worrying spread of the disease in Asia, and then think back to the government’s abysmal actions in the face of Katrina and Iraq. If the outbreak of bird flu does occur within human populations it will pose a far larger threat to all humanity than natural disasters or war. And that’s nothing to sneeze...
...water, which immediately set off the fire alarm, found its way into lighting fixtures and electrical equipment...
...impact of the 21st century's first oil alarm was equally apparent in other developing Asian countries. In Indonesia?a proud member of the OPEC cartel, never mind the fact that it's now a net importer of crude oil?the currency is in free fall and the government is burning through its foreign exchange reserves, thanks to a longstanding and increasingly ruinous policy of providing subsidized fuel to consumers. Gasoline in Jakarta costs a mere 27? per liter; some economists worry that if the government continues to spend an estimated $1 billion a month on fuel subsidies...