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October 20, 2004

Corrupt world sinking

A coalition of 17 aid agencies - inlcuding Christian Aid, Oxfam, Greenpeace, and the WorldWide Fund for Nature - today released a report called "Up in Smoke", which claims that all the supposed "Millenium Targets" - which aimed to halve global poverty by 2015 - cannot be met due to ongoing climate change impoverishing the world's poor further. Global warming, caused by excessive release for carbon dioxide, is clearly fingered in the report

Aid agencies' warning on climate

If that wasn't bad enough, Transparency International - an anti-corruption body - reports that oil production is a prime basis for corruption, especially in developing countries.

Oil wealth 'can cause corruption'

So I guess that means that oil is officially bad for our species - bad for our health, bad for the world, and ultimately corrupting.

Posted by brian_turner at October 20, 2004 02:40 PM

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