Archive for December 5th, 2008
Climatic change and the developing countries
Below is a lette from the Bolivian President about climate change that has been released in the context of the Preparatory Conference for the Conference about Climate Change in Poznan.
Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism
Sisters and brothers:
Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately 60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth suffer ; the extinction of animal and vegetal species; and the spread of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases.
