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Copenhagen climate summit: Desmond Tutu calls for climate justice
The Telegraph ^ | 12/15/2009 | Louise Gray

Posted on 12/15/2009 5:37:37 AM PST by markomalley

Justice cannot wait for a deal to stop global warming at the Copenhagen climate conference, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said.

The Nobel Laureate joined an “international climate hearing” organised by Oxfam that allowed 1.5 million “witnesses” to the damage caused by climate change around the world to make their case for action.

Witnesses included farmers in Uganda going hungry because of drought and families from Bangladesh affected by floods.

Archbishop Tutu said he has seen for himself the effects of climate change in his home country of South Africa.

“I too, stand before you as a witness. I have seen with my own eyes the changes in my homeland, South Africa. The Southern Cape is currently experiencing the worst drought anyone can remember. There is not enough food. There is too little water. The situation is becoming increasingly desperate,” he said.

Mary Robinson, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights, said climate change was “undermining human rights on an unprecedented scale.”

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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Why doesn’t he wear a flaming gas-filled tire around his neck while he’s at it?
After all, that’s what he did to all the folks that ACTUALLY KNEW HOW TO FARM DESERT LAND over there.
(And killed them.)
And now there’s no food?
Ya think?


21 posted on 12/15/2009 6:10:00 AM PST by Flintlock
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To: markomalley
After all the buzz by Coca Cola about its enthusiasm for “Hopenhagen”, I’d thought the proceedings would have reached the stage of “perfect harmony” by now.
22 posted on 12/15/2009 6:10:20 AM PST by Mobties
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To: markomalley
Witnesses included farmers in Uganda going hungry because of drought and families from Bangladesh affected by floods.

AGW had nothing to do with it. The U.S. has been feeding, clothing, trying to fix Africa for nigh on to 50 years. It is because the people there are hell-bent on self-destruction. They learn nothing from nations that teach them self-reliance.

Archbishop Tutu said he has seen for himself the effects of climate change in his home country of South Africa.

“I too, stand before you as a witness. I have seen with my own eyes the changes in my homeland, South Africa. The Southern Cape is currently experiencing the worst drought anyone can remember. There is not enough food. There is too little water. The situation is becoming increasingly desperate,” he said.

Perhaps it is because you have run your country into the dirt? Hmmm? Look at what is happening in the streets of Cape Town and Pretoria. Your countrymen are animals. They are unwilling to plan for the future. Build reservoirs, irrigation canals, infrastructure.

23 posted on 12/15/2009 6:18:47 AM PST by rjsimmon (1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: markomalley

Desmond Tutu - the racist bastard who called for killing white babies in South Africa.

Guess he graduated with the “Reverend” Wright.


24 posted on 12/15/2009 6:19:41 AM PST by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
A Quote from a wise man named Sam.

Sam's logic remains unassailable.

As does this missive from that musical sage, Warren:

"Send lawyers, guns, and money...the $hit has hit the fan."

25 posted on 12/15/2009 6:24:39 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Fresh Wind

> Desmond Tutu, Nobel peace prize recipient. Along with Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Yassar Arafat, iGore, Kofi Anan, Nelson Mandela, Mohamed ElBaradei, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ergo, one of the Greatest Unhanged Villains, Scoundrels and Rogues of all time. That in itself is quite an accomplishment, when you think about the other villains, scoundrels, and rogues who might have qualified but didn’t.

Hitler, for example, wasn’t evil enough to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Stalin neither. Jane Fonda neither, but she’s still working on it.


26 posted on 12/15/2009 6:25:49 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Mobties

LOL! Even funnier given what comes out of a Coke when you open it. Fraudenhagen is one helluva comedy of total morons all around.


27 posted on 12/15/2009 6:26:03 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: jersey117

Tutu is head of a religious group of about 100,000 people. Some Archbishop. There are individual churches in South Korea (Methodist and other Christian) that are way bigger.


28 posted on 12/15/2009 6:30:06 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Fresh Wind

Don’t send food. Don’t send water. Send them U-Hauls. They live in the f’in desert.


29 posted on 12/15/2009 6:31:30 AM PST by printhead
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To: markomalley

30 posted on 12/15/2009 6:31:34 AM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: Dr. Thorne

“Cilmate Justice”? Sorry, but the weather isn’t fair. Shovel my sidewalk in February.


31 posted on 12/15/2009 6:47:47 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: markomalley
"...because of excessive carbon emissions, produced primarily by industrialised countries..."

A glimpse of the real agenda!

32 posted on 12/15/2009 6:49:54 AM PST by Savage Beast (If you throw a rock over a fence, itÂ’s the hit dog that hollers. -Mike Huckabee)
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To: markomalley

And now every drought, flood, and mildly cool or warm season is the fault of the wealthy, and thus they must be punished. Same song, different century. Let’s have another nice war/revolt/killing field over it. Apparently, we haven’t had enough of those, yet.


33 posted on 12/15/2009 6:55:24 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: markomalley

This is typical of the wizened little fraud!

Of course, he doesn’t care for natural justice, which would see him tried and convicted of complicity in mass murder, so he calls for “social justice”, the shoddy intellectual clothing of totalitarianism.


34 posted on 12/15/2009 6:57:48 AM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: markomalley
Desmond Tutu calls for climate justice

Let me guess. His idea of 'justice' involves the evil white man and money??

35 posted on 12/15/2009 7:01:29 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Savage Beast
Yet because of excessive carbon emissions, produced primarily by industrialised countries, millions of the world’s poorest people’s rights are being violated every day.

Plants thrive on carbon dioxide. Shouldn't we be happy about all the extra CO2 in the air? It will make more plants grow and feed more people.

Anyway, how did all that "excess carbon" from "industrialized countries" make it all the way to South Africa? My guess is that they get more CO2 from the burning equatorial rain forest on their own continent than they do from "industry" in North America, thousands of miles away.

36 posted on 12/15/2009 7:03:25 AM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: markomalley
Back in the 50's, Oklahoma St University helped Ethiopia become a net food exporter by teaching them farming techniques, crop rotation, etc. Then the socialists came to power in the 70's. Look where they are now. There is plenty of decent arable farmland in Africa. Heck, for a more recent example, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of all Africa for a decade. Then Mugabe went far left, and they're starving and dealing with hyperinflation.

"It's the culture, stupid." Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't sport one single nation that could be thought of as a sucessful and stable state. Those who have stability have life expectancies of under 40. Those who have longer life spans live them under chaotic governance.

37 posted on 12/15/2009 7:06:21 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Jess Kitting

Back in the 1970’s, South Africa was a relatively industrialized country, the ONLY ONE in Africa. Today, it’s a hell-hole. And it wasn’t the weather climate that changed, it was the political climate.


38 posted on 12/15/2009 9:23:40 AM PST by henkster (0bamanomics: The "Final Solution" to America's "Prosperity Question.")
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