India loses more people to climate change than any other country
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I do believe that any climate treaty that comes out of Poznan which leads to Copenhagen must address the responsibility of rich nations making the most global warming pollution. It also must address the fact that India, China, and other developing nations looking for the same economic prosperity the US and other rich nations have can also have it by using alternate energies. They would actually fare better than the US has in regards to also providing the primer for a sustainable world. China especially must be made to see as well as the US that this is not a game of you go first or we will do nothing. This is not or should not be about political powerplays. The ability of the human species and other species to sustain themselves on this planet is at stake. That should supercede any political backbiting and competition.
And we can no longer state that there will be casualties as a result of the effects of the climate crisis in the future. This is the future. We are experiencing that future right now, and we cannot shirk our moral responsibility to those nations whose people do not make negligable amounts of emissions but yet suffer the consequences of our behavior.
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Inofuilwell
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More, Jan!
Two days ago the idiotic and eternally conceited "Michael (Jerry Weiner) Savage said that San Fransisco Bay had not risen a single centimeter. He did this while gay-bashing the San Fransisco Mayor, denouncing liberals and telling people the Bible meant for us to literally take an eye for an eye and to participate in vengeance.
Michael Savage, who says he deplores nasty language uses the Yiddish word "Putz" in at least one of his radio ads and forgets the verse in the Bible that reads, "Vengeance is Mine sayeth the Lord."
I am surprised there are enough mean-spirited listeners to keep his nastiness and drivel on the air.
Do what you can to put him in his place. He is a poisonous and hate-filled little man.
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Inofuilwell
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metalcookiesxy70
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It seems more around the world are going notice the changing around their surroundings, and eventually are going to do something about it...hopefully, this cause of increasing of climate change will alarm more to do to take action...
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metalcookiesxy70
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darkhorsejim
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Globally, coastal & island living is already rapidly changing the way many people live & work. Polynesia has been fighting a losing battle for years to keep some islands occupied. It'll really start to get interesting - & the overdue attention of the world - when a major city starts to go under water. Like, say, Venice, filled with historical treasures that will have to be saved or salvaged depending how fast the water rises. In the meantime, a sea of humanity literally needs to be rescued from a sea that constantly & indiscriminately gives, sustains, & takes life.
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darkhorsejim
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JanforGore
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Website for The Climate Project India
Raising awareness and taking action.
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JanforGore
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frimer
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JanforGore:
The sun is shinning on your mentor..lol
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JanforGore
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From the article:
Poznan (Poland), Dec 5 (IANS) Between 1998 and 2007, India has lost more people due to extreme weather events caused by climate change than any other country, with an average of 4,532 people killed every year, a well-known German NGO has calculated.The monetary losses were an average of $12 billion a year in terms of purchasing power parity, representing 0.62 percent of India’s GDP, added Sven Harmeling of Germanwatch here Thursday.
Releasing his findings on the sidelines of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in this western Poland town, Harmeling said if one took into account average death, deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, average total losses and average losses as percentage of GDP, India would rank seventh among countries most affected by extreme weather events in the last decade.
Germanwatch had created an index with these four factors, by which Honduras was the country worst affected in the last decade, followed by Bangladesh.
The benchmark Fourth Assessment Report brought out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 had said extreme weather events such as more frequent and more severe droughts, floods and storms were strongly correlated to climate change caused by global warming.
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JanforGore
