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{Nature_and_Environment.5.96}: Dave Campanas {sargedude} Wed, 26 May 2004 15:24:30 CDT (2 lines)

OK, they're ratifying it, but given the political situation in Russia
at the moment, what are the chances of them actually adhering to it?

{Nature_and_Environment.5.97}: Carla Shaw {shca75} Thu, 27 May 2004 19:16:43 CDT (22 lines)

Greenpeace London Notice (climate change meeting)

Day After Tomorrow, the Sticker Blitz

Greenpeace would like to get as many people out, on a low risk
activity, on the evening of Wednesday 2nd June.

Meet at Canonbury Villas at 6.30pm, for a campaign briefing and a
full legal briefing, and then out from 7pm till 9pm, before
congregating at a suitable pub.

If you have never done anything with Greenpeace before, then this is
another opportunity to get involved with Active supporters both old
and new. The activity is tied to the launch on the movie *The Day
after Tomorrow* and is a perfect opportunity to put climate change
firmly into the public*s consciousness.

Finally it would be helpful if you could let Richard know, if you are
able to come along to this event, by the 1st June.

Richard
Emptyhand17@hotmail.com

{Nature_and_Environment.5.98}: David Burke {tualatin} Fri, 28 May 2004 03:30:00 CDT (20 lines)

>>what are the chances of them actually adhering to it?>>

I attended a seminar last week (before Putin's announcement) on
Russia and the aluminium industry, featuring several Russia experts,
including BBC Russian affairs analyst, Stephen Dalziel. Somebody
asked about Kyoto. Dalziel and the others who had an opinion were
pessimistic about Russia ever signing Kyoto. They implied Russia
will stall as long as it can, but pay lip service and even take
concrete steps to gain advantage, like WTO membership. That, of
course, is the deal here, EU support of Russia membership in WTO if
it ratifies Kyoto.

Dalziel said it had become a pattern for Moscow officials to play
good cop/bad cop on Kyoto. One says "nyet" to the treaty and another
comes back and says "maybe."

The panelists all emphasized the enormity of Russia and its
regional - and often renegade - political autonomies. That in mind,
the question about Russia ever adhering to Kyoto is a tough one to
answer.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.99}: Kai Hagen {kai} Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:18:19 CDT (HTML)

{Nature_and_Environment.5.100}: Yosemite & Sierra Club {bshmr} Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:55:58 CDT (7 lines)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/national/03lodge.html?th

Sierra Club Lodge Focus of Yosemite Tug of War
By DEAN E. MURPHY
Centennial events at Le Conte Memorial Lodge are drawing renewed
attention to the struggle between the liberal Sierra Club and one of
its staunchest critics in Congress.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.101}: Kai Hagen {kai} Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:00:34 CDT (HTML)

{Nature_and_Environment.5.102}: James River Martin {rivertree} Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:13:06 CDT (5 lines)

    The other guy is twice as scary,
    So plug your nose and vote for Kerry!

           ~ The Clothes Pin Brigade
              {Currents.1844.1-}

{Nature_and_Environment.5.103}: Kai Hagen {kai} Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:29:24 CDT (1 line)

Much more than twice.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.104}: India Bottling Judgement {bshmr} Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:15:20 CST (52 lines)

[ Concludes with an Indian judge ordering the close of local
USA-branded soda bottling plants. Hopefully, sufficient information is
provided for each to find a free resource. Pollution, corruption of
all sorts, and devastation. ]

Le Monde diplomatique, March 2005

THE WATER DOSSIER

India: soft drinks, hard cases by Vandana Shiva

THE Indian government forced Coca-Cola out of the country in 1977. The
company's return, in October 1993, coincided with the arrival of its
arch-rival Pepsi. The United States multinationals now own 90
factories in India: Coca-Cola 52 and Pepsi 38. They describe these as
bottling plants; actually they are pumping stations, each of which
extracts up to 1.5m litres of water a day from the ground. It takes
nine litres of clean water to manufacture a litre of Coke.

...

The struggle against the theft of water is not limited to India.
Overexploitation of groundwater and major river diversion projects
represent a significant threat to the world as a whole. Nature does
not distribute water uniformly. If every part of the globe received
equal rainfall, with the same frequency and pattern, the same
vegetation would spring up everywhere, supporting the same animal
species. Our world is built upon diversity; its hydrological cycle is
a democratic system for the distribution of water to all living
species. Without democratic access to water, there can be no
democracy. ________________________________________________________

(1) Adivasi denotes indigenous tribes, outside the caste system.

(2) Virender Kumar, open letter to the chief minister, Mathrubhumi,
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala),10 March 2003.

(3) Studies showed that the beverages contained pesticides. The
government commission concluded that these residues fell within the
normal limits permitted in India. Coca-Cola consumed in the US
contains no trace of pesticides.

(4) See Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living, Modern Library, New York, 1999.

(5) Water treatment has been entrusted to Degremont, a subsidiary of
France's Suez group. In recent years, the price of water in Delhi has
risen 10-fold.

Translated by Donald Hounam

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 1997-2005 Le Monde diplomatique
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2005/03/14india>

{Nature_and_Environment.5.105}: Tonu Aun {tonu} Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:41:05 CDT (HTML)

{Nature_and_Environment.5.106}: Glen McBeth {glenbob123} Sat, 09 Apr 2005 04:19:07 CDT (8 lines)

Industry naturally locates in areas where industrial inputs such as
raw materials and labor are inexpensive.

I would think that if there is a water shortage in that region, the
water will be more expensive that it is in other regions, and that
eventually, Coke will move anyway.

Is the region amenable to piping water in from elswhere?

{Nature_and_Environment.5.107}: Tonu Aun {tonu} Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:11:31 CDT (6 lines)

Hi, Glen --- yours is the textbook answer with that weasel caveat that
you forgot to include 'in an ideal world' --- stuff rarely works that
way. Regardless of any shortage, the only consideration is cost of
production --- if in the short term Coke can amortize their costs then
it doesn't matter what they are doing in the long term ---  and short
term can be purchased --- do you really believe that is moral?

{Nature_and_Environment.5.108}: Glen McBeth {glenbob123} Sun, 10 Apr 2005 06:21:40 CDT (17 lines)

It is absolutely moral.

I disagree that "stuff rarely works that way".

It almost always works that way-  That is, they (producers) actually
almost always put production facilities where the cost of inputs are
lowest.

To me, Coke appears to be the whipping boy here because they are
American and because they are the rich guys on the block.

Compare the industry to any other industry, as far as water use is
concerned-  I don't think they look that bad.

How much water (after cleaning etc.) is used by the local pottery
factory to make a pound of pottery, or a restraunt to produce a
pound of food, etc?

{Nature_and_Environment.5.109}: Lisa Taylor {twosox} Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:00:43 CDT (10 lines)

coca cola should be the  whipping boy . I hate these guys- they sell
plastic bottled water which may or may not be superior to tap water,
creating plastic everywhere not to mention the cans of coke which
are in every ditch in every city in every country. people swilling
sugar and caffeine water and paying for it all over the world. and
we wonder why there's an epidemic of obesity and diabetes????!!
or in the case of the diet coke with aspartame, what's that doing to
people's brains?
I am truly amazed that at last our BC government has  put a BAN on
these pop products and other crap from our schools.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.110}: Glen McBeth {glenbob123} Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:29:56 CDT (3 lines)

They just sell what people want. Those damn consumers should be
drinking something more eco-friendly, and ought not throw trash out.
Blame the people.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.111}: Tom Elliot {telliot} Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:45:46 CDT (HTML)

{Nature_and_Environment.5.112}: Anita Keese {anodekraft} Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:55:51 CDT (2 lines)

When I think of all the soda commercials I have seen in my
lifetime.....

{Nature_and_Environment.5.113}: Glen McBeth {glenbob123} Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:50:42 CDT (2 lines)

Actually, I have nothing against drug dealers either.  I blame the
addict for their addiction, not the drug dealer.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.114}: Tom Elliot {telliot} Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:51:06 CDT (HTML)

{Nature_and_Environment.5.115}: Suzanne Griffith {sggriffith} Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:53:44 CDT (3 lines)

It's not a simple case of blame and responsibility. They deliver, we
suck it up. We're all part of the same relationship. We all need to
back off, ease up, slow down.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.116}: Dave Hossler {daveinchi} Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:32:29 CDT (6 lines)

Damn straight.

We are all willing participants at whatever we choose to be - at least
- if we've got any brains in our heads at all.  They spend money to
sell it.  We spend money to buy it.  Maybe someday we just need to
eliminate the monetary system altogether.

{Nature_and_Environment.5.117}: Glen Marks {wotan} Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:48:40 CST (2 lines)

"https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/how-citizens-can-become-agents-
of-environmental-change-scientists-suggestion"

{Nature_and_Environment.5.118}: Glen Marks {wotan} Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:50:31 CST (2 lines)

"https://countercurrents.org/2017/02/science-doesnt-have-to-be-
elitist-we-can-take-it-back"

{Nature_and_Environment.5.119}: Glen Marks {wotan} Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:51:27 CST (2 lines)

"https://countercurrents.org/2018/01/participation-good-citizenship-
pledge-kicking-off-2018"

{Nature_and_Environment.5.120}: Jay Hoffman {resist} Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:55:01 CST (6 lines)

"The delisting of gray wolves is the latest causality of the Trump
administration's willful ignorance of the biodiversity crisis and
scientific facts."

"https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/04/despite-meager-numbers-
trump-administration-removes-gray-wolves-endangered-species"

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