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François Hollande: invest in renewable energy to avert 'catastrophe'
2013-01-15 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world is headed for an environmental "catastrophe" if countries do not invest in renewable energy, François Hollande warned on Tuesday. Speaking at a green energy conference in Abu Dhabi, the French president said that people had an obligation to protect the planet for future generations. "If we don't act, if we don't do anything, if we don't invest anything, we can be sure that we will have a catastrophe very soon. We have to have confidence to invest in the new energy. We can act together...
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Paradigm shift needed to avert global environmental collapse
2013-01-10 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Global strategist, trained educator, and international lecturer Daniel Rirdan set out to create a plan addressing the future of our planet. His book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, published last year, does just that. "It has been a sixty hour a week routine," Rirdan told mongabay.com in a recent interview. "Basically, I would wake up with the burden of the world on my shoulders and go to sleep with it. It went on like this for eighteen months." It becomes apparent when reading The...
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