Jun 18 2008

A Global Warning About Global Warming

Date posted: 18 June 2008
View this article online here: http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/32.19

Leonardo DiCaprio argues that human addiction to oil has brought us to the brink of destruction. Our burning of oil and other fossil fuels has dumped over seven hundred billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere, causing global warming.

At the same time, big corporations and politicians have not done enough to save us. They have gained too much money and power off our addiction to oil, making them resistant to change.

 

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