please delete dupe Greens slam G8 over climate change

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://money.excite.com/ht/nw/bus/20060716/hle_bus-l16708040.html



Greens slam G8 over climate change

Sunday July 16, 1:45 PM EDT

By Louis Charbonneau

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Environmental advocacy groups accused the Group of Eight industrial nations on Sunday of failing to take seriously the problems of climate change and the dangers of nuclear energy.

At a summit in St. Petersburg, the leaders of the G8 approved a statement that acknowledged divisions among the world's top economies on promoting nuclear energy and tackling climate change.

But the statement said those who favor nuclear energy -- six of the eight G8 members -- see it as key to providing energy security amid booming global demand and as a clean form of power that can help slow dangerous global warming.

The G8 members are the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan.

Tobias Muenchmeyer, an analyst at anti-nuclear environmental group Greenpeace, said acknowledgement of a split did not change the fact that the statement is strongly pro-nuclear.

He said that apart from Germany and Italy, "Bush and Putin and the rest are committed to expanding nuclear technology that at the same time gives countries the nuclear weapons option."

[still_one]

1. If those environmental groups include the green party

then I would like to exclude the green party from that group

They are the ones who said their was no difference between Al Gore and george bush, and they can go to hell

[Pithlet]

2. Duplicate.

Thanks. Here's the original discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2393556