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Most Americans Disagree with Bush on Global Warming

Africa & Global Warming Cannot be Dealt With Separately
"Two weeks ago, a group of British aid agencies and environmental groups, from Oxfam to Greenpeace, forcefully pointed out this awkward truth. Their report, Africa - Up In Smoke? insisted the issues of African poverty and climate change are inseparably linked, and the first cannot be solved without dealing with the second. It was a direct challenge to the simple Live8 theme, that if only the economic basis of Africa's future can be sorted by a properly responsible rich world, the continent will come good. It will not, the report said, if we do not tackle the warming atmosphere. . . ."

See also: Bush, the Obstacle to a Deal on Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070505B.shtml

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