"pollution?-what pollution???" -usa/australia

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www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/13/1029113919855.html
Leonardo DiCaprio urges Bush to go green
August 13 2002
US actor Leonardo DiCaprio, calling the United States the world's biggest
polluter, urged President George W Bush to make a statement in favour of the
environment by attending the Earth Summit in South Africa later this month.

"Mr Bush, we're asking for your support, to be the president that looks
towards the future," DiCaprio told a Monday rally organised by Global Green
USA, an affiliate of Green Cross International.

So far Bush hasn't said whether he'll join some 100 world leaders, including
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mexican President Vicente Fox and French
President Jacques Chirac, at the summit.

DiCaprio also complained that the Bush administration has opted out of the
Kyoto Protocol, an international climate treaty with mandatory controls for
industry "despite the fact that we are the biggest economy and the biggest
polluter".

White House environmental experts have complained that the agreement would
cost the US economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs.

ALBO
Toxic cloud: we're partly to blame, say Greens
August 13 2002

Australia was contributing to a poisonous, 3km thick cloud of pollution
shrouding southern Asia but was doing little to stop it, the Australian
Greens said today.

Greens Senator Bob Brown said the federal government's record on curbing this
country's contribution to global warming was "hopeless", especially with its
refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol.

"We are past the age of just looking after what goes on inside our own
countries," he told Seven's Sunrise program.

"Australia's contributed to this, we have got to get active and help find the
answer, which includes feeding into an international program for reducing
global warming.

"That's where the Australia government's been totally hopeless by being one
of the few countries in the world even refusing to make the very tiny start
that the Kyoto protocol represents."

A UN-sponsored study said the lives of millions of people were at risk from
the cloud, which was a toxic cocktail of ash, acids, aerosols and other
particles.

It was damaging agriculture and changing rainfall patterns across the region,
which stretches from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, the study said.

While Australia would not be shrouded in the haze itself, Senator Brown
warned it would feel the effects.

"We're part of the human community," he said.

"Here's millions of people already dying from the effects of this smoke haze,
and it will reduce agricultural production, that's going lead to stress on
people and movement of more boat people, for example, ... if this continues.

"While the haze itself is not so likely to cross into Australia the effects
on the climate are, with changes in ocean temperature leading to changes in
rainfall in our own country."

AAP


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