[Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
this report from a financial institution deals with Avian Flu and financial markets and of course the economy and the future of work. -Original Message-Subject: FW: [Ottawadissenters] Avian Flu report Subject: [Ottawadissenters] Avian Flu reportThanks to Barry Randall for informing

Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Weick
s of their economic worth and political power. Ed - Original Message - From: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM To: FUTUREWORK (E-mail) Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: [Futurework] Avian Flu report this report from a financial institution deals with Avi

Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Reuss
Ed Weick wrote: It does seem that, as a friend put it, that we are being targeted by converging runaway trains - global warming, pandemic diseases, resource shortages, terrorism, to mention the more outstanding ones. But then I think we always have been the targets of such things. A few

Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Reuss
The report concludes: Forget the each-man-for-himself psychology of protectionist and anti-globalization rhetoric. Like it or not, we are all in this together, and we are all dragged downward by the weakest links. Pretty Orwellian -- actually, it's the Free Market and globalization rhetoric

Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Weick
Chris, in advanced economies, even the predator class (as you put it)must conform to regulations set out by officials responsible for public health. The animal to human pandemic danger is strongest where there is no regulatory system or only a very poor one, and large numbers of people live

Re: [Futurework] Avian Flu report

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Reuss
Ed Weick wrote: Chris, in advanced economies, even the predator class (as you put it) must conform to regulations set out by officials responsible for public health. The animal to human pandemic danger is strongest where there is no regulatory system or only a very poor one, and large numbers