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Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton: World needs clean stoves
Politico ^ | 5/06/11 | ALEX GUILLÉN

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; cookstoves; globalwarming; roberts; stoves
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To: Libloather
There was a time when stupidity such as this never would've been uttered -- outside of adolescence, perhaps -- much less published nationally.

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...

41 posted on 05/08/2011 4:42:03 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Libloather
Places on planet Earth that USE/NEED CO2 for Photosynthesis: Shown in shades of blue, green, yellow, red, gray, etc.

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

42 posted on 05/08/2011 4:45:39 PM PDT by buffyt (Abortion is the ultimate CHILD ABUSE!)
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To: Libloather
The title freaked me out. Glad I read the rest. I thought the US gov was going to force me to clean my oven and I would be fined/jailed if it weren't clean during their surprise "seal-ed" inspections.
BTW, I'm yearning for a pot belly stove.

BBIAB. I have to check if my mattress still has that tag.

43 posted on 05/08/2011 4:57:13 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Libloather

World needs Jesus, clean stoves can wait.


44 posted on 05/08/2011 5:03:20 PM PDT by JSDude1 (December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

an old satelitte dish lined with tin foil will focus suns rays to cook anything- problem solved- what else do we need fixing?


45 posted on 05/08/2011 5:04:31 PM PDT by mriguy67
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To: Libloather
My MIL cooked over an outdoor charcoal stove for some 87 years(assuming she started cooking at age 6). She also worked some 12 hours a day between the rice field, vegetable garden and chickens. The poor woman also kept a spotless house. Not understanding the oppression under which she lived, she was unfailingly happy and welcoming of visitors.

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.

46 posted on 05/08/2011 5:08:48 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JayNorth

“...intelligent state?” As in state of being.


47 posted on 05/08/2011 5:27:20 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Libloather
"And cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.”

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.

48 posted on 05/08/2011 5:39:37 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Libloather

Hillary's face looks like a cabbage patch doll's.

49 posted on 05/08/2011 5:47:50 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: Libloather

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.


50 posted on 05/08/2011 5:49:19 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Libloather

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.


51 posted on 05/08/2011 6:05:29 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Libloather
And cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.”

I heat with wood. It's renewable energy. Although tempted, I didn't cut down all the trees this year. Fools. Gophers and deer cause more erosion around here than ANY harvesting.
52 posted on 05/08/2011 6:10:38 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: sasquatch

Let’s go all the way...provide people in developing nations with nuclear powered stoves.


53 posted on 05/08/2011 6:45:14 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Libloather

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.


54 posted on 05/08/2011 7:14:05 PM PDT by CardeadInKy ("The problem with Liberalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" -Marg Thatcher)
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To: CardeadInKy

.....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.


55 posted on 05/08/2011 7:16:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: hal ogen; caww
I know, we send some seed corn and $6 billion so they can make ethanol
56 posted on 05/08/2011 8:20:01 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Libloather

Clean stoves hunh?

Well, shut your yaps, get out the Easy Off and get to scrubbing.


57 posted on 05/08/2011 8:25:24 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: sasquatch

LOL....


58 posted on 05/08/2011 8:29:52 PM PDT by caww
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To: Libloather
This is textbook, classic liberalism in a nutshell. The obvious solution is to promote both economic and political freedom in these countries and they wouldn't have to resort to drastic measures to survive.

Liberalism has killed more people than all of history's wars combined.

59 posted on 05/08/2011 8:59:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2012)
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To: Libloather; All
cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.”

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.

60 posted on 05/08/2011 9:54:53 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused: Debt, Deficits & Immigration.)
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