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      Seed: State of the Planet 2006

      Posted by Damianmann from Seed Magazine

      Whether this or future Earth Days help solve any particular environmental problems won't matter a bit, unless we tackle the biggie—climate change. Bill McKibben, who sounded the alarm two decades ago with his landmark book The End of Nature, reviews the damage and points the way forward. The x-factor in preventing catastrophe, he says, will be whether the American public—with its financial and cultural power to move mountains—sort of gets it, or really gets it.

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    • Climate Change Seen as Threat to the Poorest

      Posted by Damianmann from Truth Out

      Mexico City - Droughts, floods, changing rain patterns, and rising sea levels are threatening development in the world's poorest countries, specialists and aid workers said yesterday at an international water forum. Regions including Africa and South Asia - home to most of the 1.1 billion people who live without clean water - will be among the hardest hit by changing weather patterns, specialists at the Fourth World Water Forum said. They blamed the threats largely on changes in the global climate.

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