Friday, December 11, 2009

Last Tuesday...

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.

The link is to the full editorial as it appeared in the Gulf News; Sandlander remains a regular online reader. But the project originated within the Guardian organization

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