Fidel Castro warns of climate change, nuclear threat

Yahoo ^ | 1/6/12 | AFP

[NormsRevenge]

Cuba's iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warned that the world was on an "inexorable" march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war.

In an article published Thursday -- Castro's first since November 2011 -- the 85-year-old retired leader also took aim at the United States and at gas shale "fracking," a new source of fossil fuels condemned by environmentalists.

He did not, however, address rumors of his death, which were denied by an official Cuban blogger after they surfaced on Twitter earlier this week.

"Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution," he wrote in an article entitled "The March Towards the Abyss."

Since handing over power to his 80-year-old brother Raul in 2006 because of health concerns, the leader of the 1959 revolution has rarely appeared in public but has penned regular editorials on world events.

In his latest article, Fidel blamed the "inexorable" decline in part on "demagogic talk, statements and speeches from the tyranny imposed on the world by the United States and its powerful and unconditional allies."

He also wrote about the risk of nuclear war, particularly in the Middle East, where he accused Israel -- the region's sole if undeclared nuclear-armed state -- of having "hundreds" of nuclear weapons.

[ExCTCitizen]

That does it, Fidel doesn’t want us to drill. Jeez, if I didn’t know better, he sounds like Al Gore. Fidel, Teddy and Kim Jung Mentally Ill got a seat waiting in hell.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Beowulf !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.