Posted on 05/08/2011 3:00:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Julia Roberts, Hillary Clinton: World needs clean stoves
By ALEX GUILLÉN
Updated: 5/6/11 6:03 PM EDT
Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton say providing cleaner burning stoves to developing countries could save lives and help the climate.
“The impact goes beyond people's health,” the “Erin Brockovich” star and the secretary of state wrote in a USA Today op-ed published Friday. “Burning these fuels produces carbon dioxide, methane and black carbon, which contribute to climate change. And cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.”
Millions of people die each year because of smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires that rely on wood, dung or charcoal for fuel, according to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Those numbers are tilted steeply toward women and children in developing nations, who inhale the dangerously high concentration of chemicals and can develop diseases including lung cancer and cataracts.
“All of this presents a major challenge — but it can be solved,” Roberts and Clinton wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
baking cookies?
What makes people in Hollywood think that they know the answer to everything when they cannot think without being handed a script?
It’s been tried.
I have been through this in great detail at College.
Every so often, some bleeding heart whizkid comes up with a new efficient oven for 3rd world people, and sets off on an adventure to get them to use it.
What he or she finds EVERY TIME is that those people don’t WANT his contraption, because the traditional ways aren’t just for cooking food - they also provide warmth, and a central family point around which to gather.
Every major College must know about this stuff. Been tried, fails EVERY time.
I don’t need no stinking advice from the rat and the hag.
I’m so glad to find out that after all these years, Julia and Hillary FINALLY buried the hatchet and got together on something! Of course, Mooshelle took the really great, undiscovered theme of obesity, so all that was left really, was ovens.
“And cutting down trees for fuel causes natural habitats to dry up, forests to disappear and soil to erode.”
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And what about the cutting down of trees to make bio-diesel?
Humanity is very, very lucky that there were no environuts around when Ugg first discovered how to make and use fire...
Well, it seems to have worked pretty well since the beginning of human history.
It’s another giveaway program, with results being no greater than a flyspeck in the ocean.
Julia Roberts, the Hindu convert, telling the rest of us how to live . . . sheesh
Once the mush in a liberal mind gets stirred up, there is no returning it to an intelligent state.
Yes, but a Hindu convert with a CLEAN stove!
First we were not allowed to eat meat.
Then we were informed that plants have rights too.
Now we are not allowed to cook what we aren’t allowed to eat.
Then they wonder why no one takes them seriously.
What a bunch of ..... (You know where I’m headed.)
Give us a break. Like Libloather said, people in 3rd world have a lot more serious problems than the cook-stoves they’re using.
By the way, a lot of those “3rd-worlders” end up in good ol’ USA and (especially lately with housing market collapse) seem to find their way to OUR neighborhood, where they invariably end up BURNING THEIR STINKING TRASH IN THEIR BACK YARDS, and it all seems to waft over to our garden, making it impossible to breathe or enjoy a few moments outside among the roses.
Dunces are everywhere; and as my daddy used to say: “Poor people have poor ways.”
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