Fidel Castro warns of climate change, gas shale "fracking", nuclear war threat

[Better Believe It]

Fidel Castro warns of climate change, nuclear threat
January 9, 2012

Cuba's iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warned that the world was on an "inexorable" march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war.

In an article published Thursday -- Castro's first since November 2011 -- the 85-year-old retired leader also took aim at the United States and at gas shale "fracking," a new source of fossil fuels condemned by environmentalists.

"Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution," he wrote in an article entitled "The March Towards the Abyss."

On the subject of climate change, Castro expressed fears about hydraulic fracturing -- or "fracking" -- a process by which water, sand and chemicals are blasted into the ground to release oil and gas trapped in solid rock.

http://news.yahoo.com/fidel-castro-warns-climate-change-nuclear-threat-140231159.html

Read Castro's full article at:



http://www.granma.cu/ingles/reflections-i/reflections-4january.html

[RZM]

1. Nuclear war in the middle east?

No way. Any conflicts there will be conventional.

[The Doctor.]

2. Great.

More fuel for the wingnuts idiocy and denialism.

[JackRiddler]

6. You're complaining that... he's telling unvarnished truths?

Since he's Castro, should he snicker and hold the world hostage until it pays him .... one MILLION dollars?

[The Doctor.]

7. No, not 'complaining'. Just making the observation that,

in their tiny, limited, black+white minds, wingnuts 'think' that if Castro is 'for' something, then it MUST be inherently wrong.

[PDJane]

3. The man tends to be correct on a great many things..........

This is one of them.

I wish it weren't the case.

[RC]

4. Another reason we are not supposed to listen to him.

Too bad our own government is not so honest.

[FarLeftFist]

5. This reminds me of what's his name.