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Old 22-06-2011, 12:32 PM
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Gem (Grant)
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The world needs a global government to fix up the enviroment.

You can have some nations put in tougher fishing measures, but unless ALL nations try - you will have illegal fishing going around you.

I spent many years living in Zambia. There had not been a rubbish collection in the province since independence (1964), so ALL people burn their rubbish. We might have great recycling and rubbish collections here but until ALL people can join in the enviroment is going to suffer.

Most people in Zambia do not have electricity (us included for a while!) - so charcoal is used as the main fuel for cooking. The forests are being cut down and cut down and no one will replacing the trees (understandably because they are poor and only just scraping by).

Maybe our foreign aid should be in the form of providing recycling facilities and tree planting.

No simple solutions, but more needs to be done for a consistent solution across all the earth.
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