U.S.A. CO2 emissions are a violation of human rights 1st March, 2007 : An Inuit delegation has arrived in Washington to argue that the U.S. government's climate change policies are a violation of their human rights. A legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has demanded that the U.S. limits its emission of greenhouse gases. The Inuit are saying that pollution is contributing to the melting ice and thawing permafrost of their homeland. Their representatives have presented evidence to the Commission in an attempt to link human-induced climate change to international human rights, and this hearing is the latest stage in the legal process that they started in December 2005.
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March 1, 1940 - United States
Communist Party Friday, 1st March, 1940 : The communist party of Dane County in Wisconsin was all for the Soviet-Finnish Peace Treaty. This political activist group believed that this treaty would help keep Americans out of what they considered to be the Imperialist War (World War II). This treaty was actually signed as of March 12th, 1940 between Finland and the U.S.S.R. The Finnish Nation was one of the supporters of Hitler Germany at the time. The U.S.S.R. (a.k.a. Soviet Union) fought on the side of the Allied Powers, which the United States after 1937.
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Until a man duplicates a blade of grass
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"...Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life...."
All of us have a God in us
by Earth Day, Kenya
"...All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it'as the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet. Wangari Maathai-Noble Peace prize winner, Deputy Minister of Environment, founder Green Belt movement in Kenya...."
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Myth: Staring at a computer screen all day is harmful to the eyes.
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