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    • Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

      Posted by bugaloo

      In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

      Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

      Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....


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    • Dems Slam Mccain on Off-shore Drilling

      Posted by wilflipson from Firstread.msnbc.msn

      In advance of McCain's energy speech in Houston, the Obama camp attacked the presumptive Republican nominee by saying he's “flip flopped” on drilling off shore and that his energy policy “does not represent the change we need.”

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    • New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding

      Posted by Jeff from Mcclatchydc

      Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.

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    Damianmann comments on:

    Bush set to relax rules protecting species

    filibuster…

     

     

     

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    lonet comments on:

    Bush set to relax rules protecting species

    he Bush administration has until Friday to publish new rules in order for them to take effect before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in. Otherwise, Obama can undo them with the stroke of a pen. A rule eliminating the mandatory, independent advice of government scientists in decisions about whether dams, highways and other projects are likely to harm species looked likely to meet the deadline, leaving the only chance for a quick reversal to Congress.
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    Bush set to relax rules protecting species

    He has no shame.

     

    You know what this is about right? Drill baby Drill. The only thing really holding them back is the endangered species act and wildlife protections. Right?

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    11:16 pm 11/19/08
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    It Is Time to Change from Fighting Against Something to Fighting for Something

    There is information on the internet you may not be aware of, that is answering this need. For example: http://www.the-alternative.org.uk is offering over 800 pages of relevant information - all available for free download. Have a look!

     

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    David Letterman's Global Warming Rant

    This was pretty amazing.

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    Voters in Ecuador Approve Constitution and Rights of Nature

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    "Ecuador is now the first country in the world to codify a new system of environmental protection based on rights," stated Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

    "With this vote, the people of Ecuador are leading the way for countries around the world to fundamentally change how we protect nature," added Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Legal Defense Fund.

    Article 1 of the new "Rights for Nature" chapter of the Ecuador constitution reads:  "Nature or Pachamama, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution.  Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public bodies."
     

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    We've Got One Week Left to Stop One of Bush's Worst Environmental Attacks

    http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/battle-of-endangered-species-act-changes-heats-up-2008-09-08.html

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    7:04 pm 9/14/08
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