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Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 08, 2004, 10:14:14 PM: Err I mean the peace prize..

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/08/nobel.peace/index.html

I'm happy for her but damn Africa has much bigger problems than lack of trees...
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: midnight Target on October 08, 2004, 10:19:21 PM: The deforestation of the rainforest belt affects the entire world.. It is potentially a bigger single issue than anything else happening in Africa.
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: Lizking on October 08, 2004, 10:19:31 PM: They could give it to Bush for dedicating 15 Billion dollars for AIDS assistance to Africa, no wait, he is a Republican.

edit-But I agree with MT.
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: Dune on October 08, 2004, 10:41:58 PM: I agree with MT also (huh?), but that's a great header Grun.

:aok
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: lazs2 on October 09, 2004, 11:21:20 AM: well... all is not lost, maybe we can get the UN to sanction countries with rain forests if they don;t stop cutting them right this minute.

If they ignore the sanctions the UN can allways sanction them again.

lazs
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: GRUNHERZ on October 09, 2004, 11:25:54 AM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
The deforestation of the rainforest belt affects the entire world.. It is potentially a bigger single issue than anything else happening in Africa.

I find this statement a bit odd coming from you MT, somehow to me it seems to push the focus of cris away from the empovershined and opressed local polulations and shiftys it to the wider college educatued world who would know of such problems. I mean I know that the africans and south americans arent cutting/burning down the rainforest for ****s and giggles, they are doing it to earn a living thjriugh farming and livestock somehow so I ask what other job would you replace that activity with?
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: lazs2 on October 09, 2004, 11:36:10 AM: simple... just organize a world pollution council.... have all the nations sign onto it and the wealthy nations can pay for any solutions like subsidizing the africans.

lazs
Title: And the Nobel prize for gardening goes to...
Post by: Hawklore on October 09, 2004, 08:07:31 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Dune
I agree with MT also, but that's a great header Grun.

:aok

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