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Rioting for Food
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial, April 20, 2008
by Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board
Among the eight millennium development goals for international progress in relieving misery by 2015, the first is to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty. But that and other goals -- universal primary education, reduced child mortality and the like -- will be at risk if soaring food prices throw more people into economic desperation.
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Poor nations want help to fight global warming
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 6, 2007
by Michael Casey
BALI, Indonesia -- "Developing nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference demanded rapid transfers of technology Wednesday to help them combat global warming, while a report warned that some of Asia's biggest cities could be threatened by rising sea levels.
With the growth in Asian "mega-cities," coastal flooding could affect 150 million people by 2070, up from 40 million today, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned in a study released Tuesday. Flooding damage would cost the world $35 trillion, compared with $3 trillion today, it said.
"...the European Union has come out with a detailed wish list that includes demands for industrialized countries to take the lead in approving mandatory cuts, strengthening the carbon-offset market and boosting funds to help poor countries adapt."
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