[SustainableTompkins] Inequality and Global Warming

[senecajean at aol.com]

Or as Elan Shapiro at the John Seed presentation put it, "It's all one issue."  

Links and brief desriptions to 3 articles from Truthout.  

Jeanne




Inequalities Harm the Environment

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407G.shtml

Reporterre.net

Monday 21 May 2007

The greater the social inequalities in a country, the fewer efforts the country devotes to the environment: That's what CNRS [(French) National Center Center for Social Research] economists observe. Similarly, policies more attentive to redistribution should be less harmful to the environment.
- The CNRS Journal, May 2007

Why, in spite of climatic emergency, has the United States not ratified the Kyoto Protocol

 

 

 

Africa Feels the Warming It Didn't Cause

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/052407EB.shtml

Global warming isn't just a matter of melting icebergs and polar bears chasing after them. It's also 
Lake Chad drying up, the glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro disappearing, increasing extreme weather, conflict 
and hungry people throughout Africa.

 

 

Bill Moyers | A Great but Broken Promise

 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052407B.shtml

 Bill Moyers writes: "Think it over: In 1960, the gap in wealth between the top 20 percent of our country and the bottom 20 percent was 30 fold. Now, it is 75 fold. Stock prices and productivity are up, and CEO salaries are soaring, but ordinary workers aren't sharing in the profits they helped generate. Their incomes aren't keeping up with costs. More Americans live in poverty - 37 million, including 12 million children. 12 million children! America's a broken promise. America needs fixing." 

 

 

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