Hi Frederick
Thanks for an excellent article by Mario de Queroz re the report from
QUERCUS and with excellent further commentary from De Cruz.. I devoured the
material greedily.
I now await the wroth of Jose Colaco who seems to find it imposible to
accept anything even very remotely adverse about Portugal and seems to see
everything in 'paranoid' conspiratorial terms. Nevertheless I hope we can
look forward to a coherent critique from him about this environmental
disaster report from Portugal.
Cornel
PS I seem unable to get this in Plain Text
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 8:44 PM
Subject: [Goanet] [OFFTOPIC] One-Way Trip to Disaster (IPS,on Portugal and
the environment)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33495
One-Way Trip to Disaster
Mario de Queiroz
LISBON, Jun 5 (IPS) - Portugal is facing catastrophe as it heads down a path
marked by rising emissions of greenhouse gases, wasteful use of water,
unbridled construction activity and coastal erosion,
environmentalists warn.
While each successive government has promised to take "urgent
measures,"studies show that little progress has been made in curbing the
ongoing environmental damage.
In a recent report, Quercus, a local environmental group, called for a more
rational "ecological footprint"
The legislator stressed that even though the question of the environmentis
"a challenge for humanity that interferes with daily life and compromises
the future, in Portugal, a country of great ignorance...
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