An alliance of religious groups is vowing a relentless push to restore a key provision to assist the international poor in America’s Climate Security Act, the first greenhouse gas cap-and-trade bill with a realistic chance of passage in the Senate.
In a press conference today, top faith leaders from the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, the National Council of Churches, and the Union of Reform Judaism emphasized the need for U.S. funding of adaptation efforts in the world’s poorest countries, which emit relatively little carbon dioxide but may be hardest hit by global warming because of their locale and lack of infrastructure and money.
“As always, poor and working-class people need advocates, and that is what the faith community traditionally does,” Paul Gorman, executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, told U.S. News before the press conference. “We plan to be sending out materials to delegations and making phone calls. The single most striking thing about us and this issue is the degree of unity across the ideological spectrum. We see this as an extension of our traditional concern for the international and domestic poor.”
I don’t see why they need to constantly invoke the phony “We are causing Global Climate Change” mantra to get countries to clean up their air and water. A simple Human Rights mandate would work just as well.
This is the most telling point:
[i] U.S. funding of adaptation efforts in the world’s poorest countries, which emit relatively little carbon dioxide but may be hardest hit by global warming because of their locale and lack of infrastructure and money.[/i]
Critics of ‘global warming initiatives’ have been saying for years (since the proposal of the flawed Kyoto treaty), that the measures will immesurably hurt the poor even though they have very little emissions, and will keep them in the status of ‘third world country’ due to technological restrictions. I’ve posted some of their comments on past posts.
Glad to see others are finally realizing this.
“World To End Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
Anyone still reading down this far?
Here is a great article [url=http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice.asp]FIRE AND ICE [/url] chronicling the media coverage of ‘Global Climate Change hysteria’ since 1895!
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It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of “geologists.†Only the president at the time wasn’t Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.
The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis. Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be “wiped out†or lower crop yields would mean “billions will die.â€