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Watch Hugo Chavez: Capitalism is the way to the destruction of the planet

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Simon Leufstedt

Yesterday Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, made a passionate and courageous speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Chavez criticized President Obama’s “laughable” promise to help climate change and also said that capitalism will destroy our planet. Watch … Continue reading →

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Obama warns of “irreversible catastrophe” on climate, says he will not deny facts

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Simon Leufstedt

Yesterday Barack Obama delivered a speech about jobs, energy independence, and climate change as he “will direct federal regulators to move swiftly to grant California and 13 other states the right to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards,” … Continue reading →

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Gore: We cannot negotiate with the facts, the truth and the consequences

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Simon Leufstedt

During the embarrassing UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland, Al Gore held a speech where he said that the old and now “inadequate” climate change targets of 450 ppm (parts per million of CO2) had been made obsolete by … Continue reading →

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