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Les Objectifs du Millénaire
pour le Développement
Goal
7 : ensure environmental
sustainabilitydevelopment
Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental
resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe
drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum
dwellers, by 2020
www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
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Editorial
Global warming
has been officially recognized and according to the scientific
world is mainly caused by human activity (90%) - (UNESCO world
report, feb 2007)
Many currents of
throught blame the increase in population as the main cause of
global warming. We need to be quito be quite clear about
this issue :
Human activity (and its excesses) should not be confused with
natural population grooth.
As monthers,
should we consider each child or future birth a potential
ecological threat ?
should our legitimate wish for motherhood be curbed ? Should the
single child model be recommended on a would scale ? One child
per family to protect the ecological balance. Would this not
amount to the ultimate solution ?
Or, sould we not look more chosely at the incriminate human
activity factor ?
And when we do, we find that global warming is caued by
stupidity, indifference, corruption, excessive exploitation of
natural ressources, rapacity, a wish for power and money. It is
the monopolizing of the richess of nature given to the whole of
mankind by a greedy few. Thues we should distinsk those, whom on
the bases of protecting the planet, attack man.
The ecological battle should not be against man, but with man.
Human
intelligence, scientific progress, education, sharing, trust and
behaving responsability are the best solutions to the ecological
challene, undoubteally facing us today.
We, mothers have
an important role to play and an example to set :
- on a daily basis
- throught out the world
- over a long period of time
What can each of
us do ?
- water
- food
- energy
- ours homes
- clothes
- rubbish
- transport...
Please mail us
hour ideas on these subjects :
mmminternational@wanadoo.fr
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Press revue : Climat dilemne : no one can say for certain whether the
force of cyclone Sidr , devastating south Bangladesh,
one of the
poovest countries in the world, causing thousands of
deathes and destroying everything on its path, was in
part due to climat change. Nore the less, the hypothesis
was sufficiently credible to lend e tragic taint to the
report submited by the experts of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climat Change (IPCC). The Panel comissioned by
the UNO reached a consensus of opinion on the sudden and
often irreversible consequences of of global warming.
This placesenormous pressure on the world summit due to
take place next month in Bali, in order to consider the
follow-up of th Kyoto protocol ending in 2012. The
summit will have to face the following dilemma: The IPCC
report clearly underlines that the poorest nations are
those most likely to be affected by climat changes, heat
waves, drought, the raising of sea levels (melting of
the poles)-most particularly Bangladesh. These nations
are also the least advanced and therefore those which
will be the most affected by measures to limit the
expression of greenhouse gases. In order to create
wealth, they need to develop their economies and thus
use more energy. This is why India and China have
refused to submit to the restrictions specified in the
Kyoto protocol. The rich nations, therefore, must make
the greatest effort to reduce their impact on the
environment. They must also put at the disposal of the
poorest nations the latest technologies allowing
them to develop while limiting their harm caused to the
environment. It is together that the North and the South
must learn to "live differently".
Guillaume
Goubert "La Croix" 19/11/07
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"The probleme is our inadequate relationship with
nature : rather than gardening it lovingly we exploite it.
Thureis nothing wrong in ploughing it,
however we have ill-treated it. The first gardens were made by
women, in a gentle fashion... Now, we use ploughshares, trators,
huge bulldozers and we are destroying every thing. We have a
rignt to use technological progress but not to misuse il. I am
convinced that ecological imbalance arises from a profound vack
of interest in the earth, a vack of love, everything stems from
that".
Jean-Marie Pelt Botanist, author, politician |
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