Nov 15 2013
Haiyan: A Disaster Made Worse by Greed
Published by Truthdig.com on November 15, 2013
By Sonali Kolhatkar
While the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is 95 percent confident that global warming is caused by human activity (there are very few areas of active research in which scientists are so confident), what falls out of the scope of the report is which humans are responsible. The Philippines, which is one of the poorest and least developed nations on the planet, has …
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