Posted on 01/14/2009 2:36:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SYDNEY (AFP) Australia's outback Aborigines will be among the worst affected by climate change as soaring temperatures likely cause more disease and spur distress about the changing landscape, a new report shows.
The expert report, published in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia, argues that the country's remote indigenous communities are the most vulnerable to changing environmental conditions.
"Their vulnerability to climate change is intensified by the social and economic disadvantage they already experience -- the result of factors that include decades of inadequate housing and public services, and culturally inappropriate medical services," the journal said in an editorial.
"In addition, specific cultural ties between indigenous people's wellbeing and the 'health' of their 'country' create significant indirect impacts of climate change."
Donna Green, co-author of the journal report and a climate change researcher at the University of New South Wales, said rising temperatures could increase the incidence of diseases such as dengue fever and harm the health of elderly and chronically sick people living in remote areas.
"They will just have very low resources to be able to cope with change and to be able to get access to health (services)," she told AFP.
But Aboriginal communities, already the most disadvantaged in the country, would also suffer from seeing the ancestral lands to which they have a spiritual connection harmed by the impact of climate change, she said.
"Many communities, if they are seeing their ecosystems change, plants and animals doing things at different times -- flowering at different times or particular totemic animals breeding or appearing at different times -- then that can cause a lot of social unease," Green said.
"Because people just don't feel like they are looking after their country properly; that they aren't managing their country for their ancestors."
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Maybe some of them polar bears floating on that broken iceberg will make it down to Australia and eat some Aboriginies....
This Globalist Whoring nonsense is getting silly....
Not to be unduly cruel, ‘health services’ are not part of their aboriginal culture anyway. They would be at the mercy of any climate-related upset, however short term.
The Gods Must Be Crazy!
just BEYOND nonsense. Anywhere they can create more victims they will try. No excuse is too thin. No person(s) too valuable to be treated as invalid and feable.
Aborigines children hit hardest.
I read an Audubon magazine in the doctor's office the other day. Their new global warming czar was describing what we must do, immediately.
1- Put global warming believers in all levels of public office from the president on down. That is being done now.
2- Implement PEBO's cap-and-trade scheme immediately, then sign on to a new treaty pledging to reduce America's carbon output by 80% over the next few years. Yes, that's an eighty percent reduction, even as the population grows.
What does that mean, an 80% reduction in emissions? It means our current ideas of driving private vehicles to work are over, and by the way, your job isn't there anymore anyway because they can't manufacture anything here under the new laws. Forget about our abundant supplies of coal, it's over. Nuclear electricity? Too dangerous. We'll all be roasting rats over a wood fire, that is if we don't get caught by the carbon police.
This site is hardly the place to bring up these inaccurate rumors about the sufferings of Aussie Aborigines*.
It is established scientific fact that in any calamity, the first to suffer will be Americans: that is, women and children, closely followed, in no particular order, by members of federally listed minority groups, gays, lesbians, (please do not lump them together as "homosexuals") the transgendered, and anyone else identified by Barak Hussein Obama, or his assigns.
It is also scientifically established fact that Global Warming is occurring at a rapid rate. Therefore, on January 21, 2009, all Republicans will be required to deposit their winter garments at a designated Federal Depot, where these outmoded and anti-social vestments will be recycled.
** Please notify ACORN to have these Aussie Aborigines registered as Democrats, start their EEOC status as minority group members, get their welfare payments going, and arrange transportation to the polls. Then, we will officially be permitted to worry about them, and point out that Republicans don't care.
Note: this topic is from 01/14/2009. Thanks NormsRevenge.Hey, everyone has to die of some kind of imaginary problem.
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