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Turborama

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Sat Jun-13-09 09:40 AM
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Australians demand climate action

Source: BBC

Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment from climate change.

The National Climate Emergency Rallies called on Australia to take the lead at the UN environment summit in December in Copenhagen.

Activists also want an end to Australia's dependence on cheap and plentiful supplies of coal.

It is one of the world's worst per capita emitters of greenhouse gases.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8098452.stm

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Wabbajack_

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Sat Jun-13-09 09:42 AM
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1. Isn't this one of the reasons Labor won the last election?

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eddieb2

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Sat Jun-13-09 10:01 AM
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2. climate

Edited on Sat Jun-13-09 10:02 AM by eddieb2

They Don't have Hannity in Australia?

Hannity: "There's now pretty much consensus that we're in a period of global cooling"

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