Posted on 05/08/2011 3:00:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton: World needs clean stoves
By ALEX GUILLÉN
Updated: 5/6/11 6:03 PM EDT
Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton say providing cleaner burning stoves to developing countries could save lives and help the climate.
The impact goes beyond people's health, the Erin Brockovich star and the secretary of state wrote in a USA Today op-ed published Friday. Burning these fuels produces carbon dioxide, methane and black carbon, which contribute to climate change. And cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.
Millions of people die each year because of smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires that rely on wood, dung or charcoal for fuel, according to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Those numbers are tilted steeply toward women and children in developing nations, who inhale the dangerously high concentration of chemicals and can develop diseases including lung cancer and cataracts.
All of this presents a major challenge but it can be solved, Roberts and Clinton wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It is the kind of thoughtless drivel that should inspire universal laughter and derision.
Yet, in today's world, it gets published...and we are asked to take it seriously.
This is NOT progress...
Composite image showing the global distribution of photosynthesis, including both oceanic phytoplankton and vegetation
Overall equation for the type of photosynthesis that occurs in plants
BBIAB. I have to check if my mattress still has that tag.
World needs Jesus, clean stoves can wait.
an old satelitte dish lined with tin foil will focus suns rays to cook anything- problem solved- what else do we need fixing?
For that matter, during the first ten years of her marriage, my Mother cooked over a wood stove and pumped water and used kerosine lamps, all in the USA at small mining camps. If things go well, in 75 years, someone will be horrified at the privations we are undergoing.
“...intelligent state?” As in state of being.
And what happens when we redirect food for use as a fossil fuel substitute? People starve Julia! Maybe you should stick to playing a whore in the movies. Being on Hillary's team could be dangerous to your health. Just ask Vince Foster.
Hillary's face looks like a cabbage patch doll's.
Clean stoves, one sheet of toilet paper, wow there is a brain in that head of theirs, even though its malfunctioning most of the time.
We could ship the poorest of the poor countries top of the line stainless steel cook stove, and they would still fill them with camel dung.
Let’s go all the way...provide people in developing nations with nuclear powered stoves.
I can see it now: Huts with modern ovens full of wood burning in the oven! Because they don’t have electricity/gas hookups!
Typical liberal thinking.
.....might better spend there efforts on getting food to those without rather than what they cook it on. If no food it won’t make one bit of difference.
Clean stoves hunh?
Well, shut your yaps, get out the Easy Off and get to scrubbing.
LOL....
Liberalism has killed more people than all of history's wars combined.
Humanity is a cancer on Mother Gaia.
Why is Hillary writing this and why does it appear in a major US paper? Are we Americans expected to pay for these ovens? Let's start with Ms Roberts. How many is she buying? Come on, don't be greedy! And Hillary too. She and Bill are rolling in cash.
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