Smacks a bit of ’emperor’s new clothes’ . . . . ?
http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2010/09/pollution-market
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Will it ever be safe to back in the water . . . . ?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727761.600-why-wartime-wrecks-ar
e-slicking-time-bombs.html
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Tasmania (and Australia) has rather a lot of mines too so persumably
this
situation could occur here . . . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafri
ca/7984858/Rising-tide-of-acid-mine-water-threatens-Johannesburg.html
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This should be mandatory reading for all our politicians. And public
health
officers. Especially those in Tasmania . . .
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52736
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Some food for thought . . .
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/all_consuming/
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Tibet probably isn’t the first country to spring to mind in the context of being crucial to climate change issues. But . . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/02/tibetan-plateau-climate-change
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Remind you of the predicament being faced by a certain mainland Australian river . . . . ?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100902/sc_afp/environmentperuclimateamazon
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Can somebody pleeeease tell the pollies. That’s all of them. Everywhere . . . .
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/world-facing-mass-extinction/story-e6frg15u-1225913659680
China’s boom could be bust its people . . .
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFP3WtrXorrVEfZRgGSU2Ojx2RBQ
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Don’t you just luuurve the power of the internet! Facebook users, this one’s for you . . .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/01/facebook-renewable-energy-coal
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Pakistan isn’t the only country with flood disaster problems . . .
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Niger_floods_bring_disaster_on_top_of_food_crisis_999.html
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The smallest things can be the most important . . .
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100901/full/467015a.html
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Perhaps not such a clever country after all when we allow this to happen . .
. .
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/20-years-left-mammals-plunge-into-extinction-20100901-14nmz.html
Anne
