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Avoid Buying New Items
One of the most important things we all can do to combat global warming is to avoid buying new articles. Buy used cars, used tools, used clothes, used books, etc., rather than their new counterparts. This practice alone will greatly reduce your "carbon imprint" on the world, since fuel is used (burned) to produce new things. And it is the burning of fuel which causes global warming.
Of course, this requires quite a paradigm shift, which is defined as:
Most people around the world have been brought up to believe that it is OK to consume as much as one can afford. To do otherwise requires an "environmental ethic" which unfortunately is very uncommon.
I invite further comments.
The recent 3-5 June 2008 FAO
The recent 3-5 June 2008 FAO World Food Security conference in Rome was originally called to look at the impact of climate change on world-wide agricultural production. There had been a number of expert meetings to prepare the June conference. However, the current food crisis, rising food prices and hunger riots brought short-term issues and food relief to the top of the agenda. Thus, a follow up conference is planned for Madrid, Spain at the end of November or early December. Below, there are two articles Urgent Food Shortages and World Food Policy: The Road to Madrid as background.
The Madrid Conference will be an opportunity for non-governmental organizations to present their views, and I can try to make a synthesis of the views presented in this discussion. (posted by Lloyd for Rene Wadlow)
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