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Station 3
Effects on the environment and people
in developing countries
Henning(i), flickr
Kunstzirkus, pixelio
Drought in Rustawi, Georgia
“Even if oil reserves were limitless and every
country owned enough supplies 3 to feed
its citizens’ oil appetites, the devastating 4
environmental consequences associated with
fossil fuel use demand 5 the world’s attention.
Fossil fuel use results in negative environmental
impacts in a number of ways including
local and regional air pollution, water pollution,
ground pollution, and climate instability.
In its 2005 report, the Worldwatch Institute
concluded that ‘oil threatens climate stability
because its use, which is accelerating 6 ,
accounts for a major share of global greenhouse
gas emissions and because its overwhelming
dominance of the transporta tion
fuel market makes it difficult to replace.’”
Mona Hymel
Globalisation, Environmental Justice,
And Sustainable Development:
The Case of Oil
(2007)
Source www.law.mq.edu.au/html/MqLJ/volume7/07Hyme.pdf
Flood
“Developing countries, and the poorest people
who live in them, are the most vulnerable
to climate change. Yet it is also they who are
most in need of expanded energy services
to meet their growth and development needs.
As global citizens we cannot afford to wait
to address these urgent issues.”
Mark Malloch Brown
United Nations Development Programme
Source www.undp.org/energy/climate.htm
Interesting links
–– YouTube keywords
Climate Change in Ethiopia
Climate Change in Bangladesh
Climate Change in Costa Rica
–– www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/
100220184329.htm
Global Warming May Hurt Some
Poor Populations, Benefits Others.
Online article, March 2010
Vocabulary
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Supplies = hier: Vorräte
4
Devasting = zerstörerisch
5
To demand = hier: verlangen
6
To accelerate = beschleunigen