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2010-W27(*) Topic: "Destruction of natural environment"

09 - 11 JUL 2010

• human made disasters:
  • pollutions of air and water
  • exhaustion of arable lands
  • destruction of rain-forests
  • extermination of species
  • destruction of protective layers of atmosphere
  • expansion of deserts
  • melting of glaciers

• increased natural catastrophes:
  • earth- and water- quakes
  • volcano eruptions
  • tsunamis
  • floods
  • tornados
  • fires

• weakening human immune system:
  • low nutritional value of food
  • risk of epidemics
  • bad living and working habits
  • bad influence of modern civilization
  • psychological disorders

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Time of meetings

Part 1	Part 2	City/Country
Friday, 07:00 PM	Saturday, 11:00 AM	Honolulu/HI-US
Friday, 10:00 PM	Saturday, 02:00 PM	Vancouver/CA; Los_Angeles/US
Friday, 11:00 PM	Saturday, 03:00 PM	Calgary/CA; Salt_Lake_City/US
Saturday, midnight	Saturday, 04:00 PM	Winnipeg/CA; Chicago/US; Mexico/MX; Bogota/CO; Lima/PE
Saturday, 01:00 AM	Saturday, 05:00 PM	Toronto/CA; New_York/US, Miami/US; Santiago/CL; Caracas/VE
Saturday, 02:00 AM	Saturday, 06:00 PM	Sao_Paulo/BR; Buenos_Aires/AR
Saturday, 06:00 AM	Saturday, 10:00 PM	London/UK, Lisbon/PT
Saturday, 07:00 MF	Saturday, 23:00 MF	Stockholm/SE, Paris/FR, Berlin/GE, Zurich/CH, Rome/IT, Madrid/ES, Warsaw/PL
Saturday, 08:00 MF	Sunday, 00:00 MF	Helsinki/FI, Riga/LV, Kiev/UA; Jerusalem/IL; Istanbul/TR
Saturday, 09:00 MF	Sunday, 01:00 MF	Moscow/RU
Saturday, 10:00 AM	Sunday, 02:00 AM	Karachi/PK
Saturday, 10:30 AM	Sunday, 02:30 AM	Dehli/IN
Saturday, noon	Sunday, 04:00 AM	Novosibirsk/RU; Jakarta/ID; Bangkok/TH
Saturday, 01:00 PM	Sunday, 05:00 AM	Beijing/CN; Manila/PH; Perth/AU
Saturday, 02:00 PM	Sunday, 06:00 AM	Tokyo/JP; Seoul/KR
Saturday, 03:00 PM	Sunday, 07:00 AM	Sydney/AU
Saturday, 05:00 PM	Sunday, 09:00 AM	Auckland/NZ

How to participate

Meetings are held 2 times during each weekend. Part 2 of the meeting will follow, 16 hours after the start of part 1. You can choose the most appropriate meeting time or you can participate twice. Topic of each part is the same.

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Links:
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• 2010-W22: "Overpopulation"
• 2010-W23: Free discussion because of only few participants. "Meditation" topic left for some other meeting in future.
• 2010-W24: "Learning German"
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