[ConservativeMan55]

Bush’s fault

[a fool in paradise]

America should quick damming their rivers with our carbon footprint. < /sarc >

[ScottinVA]

They sure aren’t acting very hopeychangey over there.

[Niuhuru]

I hope God understands and if reincarcanation does occur, they’re put in a much better position in their next life.

Personally I think He forgot that we can’t always bear what He was able too.

[Joe 6-pack]

20 years, and still no progress...:-(

[B-Chan]

Folks, please. I love to joke around as much as the next guy, but we’re talking about 1,500 DEAD HUMAN BEINGS. Can we please at least act like we give a damn?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Monsanto must be so proud.

[thefactor]

1500 hundred people commit mass suicide and 95% of this article is about the weather conditions???

um, how did they do it?! where were they?! info please!

[Kimmers]

This is incredibly sad....my heart breaks for their families.....

[trisham]

This is horribly sad.

[Abathar]

""Farmers' suicides are increasing due to a vicious circle created by money lenders. They lure farmers to take money but when the crops fail, they are left with no option other than death.""

That's not true, there is always the option of taking out the moneylender instead of yourself...

[Moonman62]

Bharatendu Prakash, from the Organic Farming Association of India, told the Press Association: "Farmers' suicides are increasing due to a vicious circle created by money lenders. They lure farmers to take money but when the crops fail, they are left with no option other than death."

Mr Prakash added that the government ought to take up the cause of the poor farmers just as they fight for a strong economy.

Usury and bankruptcy laws sound like a good idea.

[GingisK]

Now, if only their software houses would follow suit.

[anglian]

Private water, public misery Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.

[anglian]

I imagine a lot of this is going on throughout India, Like a new gold rush. Putting good soil and water into..... cars: India’s Chhattisgarh state completes plantation of 100 million jatropha saplings; 1 million hectares planted by 2012
In India, the Chhattisgarh state minister for forests said that the planting of 100 million jatropha saplings on 40,000 hectares throughout the state has been completed. The state spent $15.1 million on the project, which will ultimately plant 1 million hectares of fallow land with jatropha by 2012, and create 1.43 billion in revenue from the sale of biodiesel.
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2009/02/12/indias-chhattisgarh-state-completes-plantation-of-100-million-jatropha-saplings-1-million-hectares-planted-by-2012/

[sten]

considering the downward spiral of the economy, could this have been organized by an enterprising mortician?

[Antoninus]

Well, at least the enviro-nazis are happy.

[Cronos]

His family must repay a debt of £400

The lazy bums in the US who vote dim and cribe that they don't get more handouts should realise how lucky they are.