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Climate change action needed to address global poverty : Comments
By Lena Aahlby, published 29/7/2011The impacts of climate related disasters such as the one currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa could be reduced by building resilience in communities.
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Posted by miacat, Sunday, 31 July 2011 2:16:03 PM
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Ahem... PEST's post which was repeated and heartily praised for its eloquence by Miacat is simply the cut and pasted words of another. So PEST has cut and paste someone else and Miacat has cut and pasted PEST.
So much for independent thinking. The first paragraph appears word for word here and in other places on the net. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-27/us/world.population.growth_1_global-population-perils-demographic-challenges?_s=PM:US Its very difficult to argue a point with someone who is not the actual author of their own post. Posted by Atman, Sunday, 31 July 2011 6:22:17 PM
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I must say I'm heartened by the response to this piece of self-serving tripe.
First the author tries to claim that famine in somalia is a problem caused by AGW, then she seems to feel that it's actually due to there not being enough women farmers, or it might be that it's because of the West's insistence on doing business, but whatever it is, we should be Very Concerned. After all, Lena is and she should know, she makes a living out of it. Riight. If Somali mothers were genuinely concerned for the fate of their children they'd do their best to leave Somalia. Looking down the street near my home in Moorooka it appears that many have done exactly that. Somalia is a basket case and it will continue to be one for decades, partly because people like Lena keep insisting on spending more money on the place; money which is snapped up by people who eat people like Lena for breakfast and used to buy more power at the point of a gun. Posted by Antiseptic, Monday, 1 August 2011 7:28:11 AM
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"We have to tackle some tough issues ranging from the unmet need for contraception among hundreds of millions of women and the huge knowledge-action gaps we see in the area of child survival, to the reform of retirement policy and the development of global immigration policy.
It's just plain irresponsible to sit by idly while humankind experiences full force the perils of demographic change. However for those with children remember this the infant mortality rate in Somalia is 225 per 1,000 live births compared to 4 per 1,000 in Australia.
The Cold War so profitably outsourced to the Horn of Africa and created these challenges and a catastrophe with climate change in Somalia.Somalia has no arms factory but is awash with weapons from the merchants of death in the rich countries including Saudi Arabian financiars, nearly all of whom violate the 20 year UN arms embargo.
The greed, moral bankruptcy and gravy trains of the worlds rich continue. [underlined]
If only evolution had mankind had the sense to match its wit."
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