Blair Blocked Plan to Cut Emissions.<\/b>
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This comes from the 'Independent' in England and was repeated by the NZ Herald.<\/p>\n
02.04.06
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By Environmental Editor Geoffrey Lean<\/p>\n
Abridged:<\/p>\n
Tony Blair personally frustrated measures to cut Britain's emissions of the pollution that causes global warming, despite repeatedly calling for action,
\n it has been revealed.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister did not back proposals from his Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, that aimed to get the Government's strategy to fight climate
\n change back on track.<\/p>\n
Mr Blair even chaired the committee that conducted the review and failed to back a 58-point plan put forward by Mrs Beckett.<\/p>\n
Mr Blair told a climate change conference in New Zealand last week that failure to take action on global warming would be \"absolutely disastrous\".<\/p>\n
He added: \"I don't want it on the conscience of me, or my generation, that we were told what this problem was and did nothing about it.\"<\/p>\n
Privately the Prime Minister shows little interest in measures to cut pollution, preferring international talks, where he increasingly mirrors the
\n position of President George W Bush.<\/p>\n
End.
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- INDEPENDENT<\/p>\n
Does this mean that the World Court in the Hague, in Holland is the next step for politicians who betray the wishes of the democratic process?<\/p>\n
Me thinks they are going to be busy in the future.<\/p>\n
Momentarily disillusioned again.<\/p>\n
How does he live with himself?<\/p>\n
Tony Blair is a committed Christian, who \"keeps the Bible by his bed\", reports The Observer Newspaper.<\/p>\n
This is very unfair on committed heart-based Christians, to have him representing them.<\/p>\n
Tim<\/p>\n
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Tony Blair, This man must be seriously ill. After calling for a world crusade against global warming and climate change, we find out that he actively went against his own clarion call. No wonder youth in the street today are going haywire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}