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<DIV>China pollutes the world more than the US not because of its proportion of carbon emissions per person, but because it has made the unwise decision of having a population of 1.4 billion people. Having that many people will pollute the world and deplete it of its resources much more quickly than 300 million polluters in the US. </DIV>
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<DIV>What would the Earth rather have, a 100 people throw 10 lbs of trash into the ocean, or 700 people 5 lbs of trash. Per person doesn't matter, it matters how much trash because the Earth is a finite resource. It doesn't get bigger per person. </DIV>
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<DIV>Further, China produces about half the trash we throw out over here anyway. :P</DIV>
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<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
<DIV>Donovan Arnold <BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 11/20/09, Ted Moffett <I><starbliss@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Ted <SPAN><SPAN>Moffett</SPAN></SPAN> <starbliss@gmail.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming‏<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:20 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><A href="http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127</FONT></A><BR><BR>Institute for Public Accuracy<BR>980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045<BR>(202) 347-0020 * <A href="http://www.accuracy.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.accuracy.org</FONT></A> * <A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ipa@accuracy.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ipa@accuracy.org">ipa@accuracy.org</A><BR>___________________________________________________<BR><BR>Wednesday, November 18, 2009<BR><BR>China, U.S. and Global Warming<BR> <BR><A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org"><STRONG><FONT color=#527194>SIMONE LOVERA</FONT></STRONG></A><BR>Based in Paraguay,
Lovera is co-founder of the <A href="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#527194>Global Forest Coalition</FONT></STRONG></A>. She said today: "The U.S. per capita carbon dioxide emissions are so much higher than China's emissions. In 2005, the U.S. was nearly 23.5 while China is 5.5 [tons of CO2 per person per year]. It's inappropriate for the U.S. to be demanding that China reduce emissions unless you somehow argue that the U.S. has a right to pollute the rest of the planet and China doesn't. China actually showed real leadership in the voluntary commitments it made at the UN General Assembly meeting in September. I understand Obama has to deal with the U.S. Senate, but U.S. officials are actually obstructing progress at the international climate negotiations. The Europeans have agreed to a 20 percent reduction -- the Scottish [government] agreed to 40 percent. The U.S. government is stopping these from
being binding commitments. Meanwhile, studies are finding that 300,000 people are dying because of climate disruption; countries in the Pacific are on course to be under water."<BR><BR>Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. <BR><BR>See: "<A href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29" rel=nofollow target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#527194>Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe</FONT></STRONG></A>" <BR><BR>Lovera is also reachable via <B><A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hallie@globaljusticeecology.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:hallie@globaljusticeecology.org"><FONT color=#527194>Hallie Boas</FONT></A></B>. <BR><BR>Boas is coordinator of <A href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/newvoices.php" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#527194>New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology Project</FONT></STRONG></A> and can connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the world..<BR><BR><BR>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<BR>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167<BR>------------------------------------------</DIV>
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