Poverty and climate change

October 22nd, 2011 | Posted by iip in Forest - (0 Comments)

Some data show that poverty raised in the countries where it endowed abundant natural resources.  But the abundance isn’t key factor.  The recent factor discussed by experts is climate change.

Climate change may increase the number of poor people in developing countries. In this countries, they have less resources to adapt and mitigate climate change probles. That’s way, the most affected people by climate change is poor people.

In Indonesia, most poor people rely on agricultural sectors. They live in rural areas that closed to forests and other remote areas.  NGO’s and International development agencies should address this issue in right place. Some of them have been working for years and contribute good result.

Blog Action Day is an outsanting action to leverage athmosperic poverty eradiction. As the world become more parrallel, we need more breakthoroughs to make our world better.

Global election in global society

October 14th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (Comments Off)

Global society is urged to vote earth in the global election in 28 March 2009. How to vote earth in the election is just simply turn the light off for one hour.  Leaving them on is a vote for global warming, says earth hour sites.

Earth Hour is one of NGO efforts in combating global warming. This effort meets better momentum in the booming of social networking technologies. This year, people are more connected by recent features, services of gadget. I wrote how environmetal NGO’s use facebook as their tools to interacts with people as well as promoting the missions.

Is this the first move to turn the lights off globally? Can the global society‘s action help addressing earth’ problem?

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Affordable food

October 14th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Energy - (Comments Off)

I agree with argument on the development of biofuel threatening Indonesia food security. It happen mainly through land conversion. In the next decades, biofuel crops will dominate agricultural land and decreasing forest land.

Today I read a 2006 publication on agricultural land conversion. It says that the accelerating rate of conversion of agricultural lands in mainly caused by very low incentives to work in agriculture compared to industrial and service sectors. I try to link it with biofuel development. (more…)