How the other half starves David W. Golding CBE PhD DSc HonDCL Visiting Fellow, Newcastle University

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How the other half starves David W.
Golding CBE PhD DSc HonDCLVisiting Fellow,
Newcastle UniversityDevelopment Coordinator,
Make Poverty History NERegional Spokesperson for
Tearfund
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ZewdieTamirat attempts a smile
for the cameraman.
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• Today, a scientific paper has been published by
  the Royal Society which concludes that climate
  change, largely caused by human activities, may
  already be responsible for an increase in drought
  conditions, and hence for a rise in the risk of
  famine, in eastern Africa where millions are
  already at risk of hunger (Lord Robert May,
  President of the Royal Society, Oct 2005)

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The impacts of climate change will fall
disproportionately upon the poor (Dr Rajendra
Pachauri, Chair of IPCC)
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• Climate change could make the Millennium
  Development Goals unattainable, and even
  reverse human development achievements (British
  aid agencies)

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• The threat of climate change to an already
  vulnerable Africa cannot be overestimated it
  will have potentially disastrous consequences for
  a continent which relies so heavily 90 on
  rain-fed agriculture (Royal Society, 2005 )

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• As Himalayan glaciers melt, they will provide
  less water for the rivers they feed, reducing
  water availability in regions where more than
  one sixth of the world population currently
  lives (IPCC II, 2007).

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After Hurricane Sidr, Nov 2007
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• Recent best estimates give a mean sea level
  rise of up to one metre by 2100, with up to two
  metres not being ruled out
• (Sir John Houghton, former Co-Chair of the
  IPCC)
• I find it almost impossible to image how the
  poor of Bangladesh will cope
• (Veena Khaleque, country director of Practical
  Action)

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ZewdieTamirat attempts a smile
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Victims of Hurricane Mitch
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Rising sea levels have twice washed away his
fragile home
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How could I look my grandchildren in the eye
and say I knew about this and did nothing?
(Sir David Attenborough)
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• The effects of western economic policies
  (trade, debt, taxation, etc.) have amounted to
  nothing less than economic terror on a global
  scale. To that we are now adding environmental
  terror (David Golding)

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I urge governments, development and
environmental organisations to work together
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu)