What is Going On?

[juta]

My deep condolences to Latvia.

Unfortunately the number of victims is rising, 26 now. Rescue works continues.

[Felis silvestris]

My condolences to Latvia and its people, what a terrible tragedy!

[Jo UK]

I am so sorry to learn of this dreadful event in Latvia.

[Wil Muller]

My deepest sympathy to all the victims and their families in Latvia

[macdoum]

I am very sorry for all the loss of life in the terrible accident in Riga. My deepest sympathy to all the families of those who lost their lives. R.I.P.

Latest: 49 lives lost so far.

[Manu]

What a tragedy! I send my condolences to the people there in Latvia.

[leonia]

Terrible pictures on delfi.lv, poor people standing in front of the collapsed buidling waiting that they find their friends and relatives . . . Last number of found dead people: 50. Still some 20 people missing.

I send my deepest condolences to Riga and the Latvian people.

[ame]

these sad news are becoming more horrible as time goes on.

my deepest condolences to all whose family members were victims of this accident and to all Latvian people.

[alice44]

Oh dear - the numbers keep going up. So horrible.
My condolences to all the people of Latvia.

[Katinka]

Now something different - What's going on else?
Sorry to "disturb" you!

What a disgrace for the future of our globe
Yesterday the UN Climate Change Conference in Poland, known as COP 19, ended – without any helpful nor hopeful decisions.
Shame on all the participating governments – the most NGO's, like Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth (dt. BUND), left the meeting in the 2nd week to express their protest against the undecided attitude.

I am stunned about another failure after the last years. What an effort to prepare everything to let it take place – for what?
It again shows that policy/politicians can't manage to find a way for 1 world in which we can live in more hopefully, according to the climate. For instance, instead of a decreasing CO2 emission the Methane emission now has drastically increased. That's what I kept in mind…
But what about the general development of greenhouse gas emissions?
Wikipedia pro or con – here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... per_capita
And here a graphical excerpt from WP to what the Kyoto Protocol in 1990 said about targets, and results in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kyoto ... d_2009.png
Have a look at Canada and Estonia, as 2 examples…

Who can live calmly after that meeting, knowing there is no political consensus to join together for the future of all our children? Me not. I feel more and more bad and the time is near to react. But I forgot…living in such a country like Germany means no tradition to walk on the street. It's a car country.
Remember – it's the say now since more than 20 years, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, that we have to get the development turned.

I am aware that this can be understood as a political statement. But in connection with the attitude of LK it is a statement of a worried nature lover and ecologist.

[airras]

my condolences to all those affected in the accident, an unfortunate tragedy

[Bea]

My compassion is with all the people in Riga who lost relatives, friends and colleagues at this disaster.

[heidu]

My eyes are cried out, it`s so horrible. My condolences to all the Latvian people.

[Lucy]

My deep condolences to the relatives and friends of the victims of this terrible tragedy in Riga, and to all Latvians.

[Riitta]

My condolences to all people of LATVIA.
What a tragic accident in RIGA...

[Jo UK]

This is such sad news from UK

A wolf that was on the run after escaping from its enclosure at an Essex zoo has been shot dead.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-25112387

Danger to the public. Really?
I was about to put this on the Wolf topic, but it is not about Estonian wolves.

[Wil Muller]

What a terrible story, why they decide to shoot to kill the wolf instead of a general anesthetic arrow or something like that?

[Jo UK]

Wil, I wish they had done that. I don't know why they chose to kill it.

[macdoum]

Wil, I wish they had done that. I don't know why they chose to kill it.

Jo,its such a drastic solution. Surely they have a vet who could have anaethesised them. Sounds like everyone just panicked.
In one statement keeper says 'Very shy animals' & next she's saying how dangerous they are.
Surely if food was offred they would have come back ?

[Lena101]

I just read the article about the wolf. "Sarah Forsyth, of the zoo, said the "dangerous wild animals" would have posed a risk to the public and had to be destroyed. " I think this woman should not work in a zoo, the way she is talking about animals.