15 June 2005

Inuit to sue USA over climate

"The Inuit hope that the commission will agree that climate change is tantamount to a U.S. abuse of their human rights by thinning the ice on which hunters depend and by threatening species ranging from polar bears to seals.

Watt-Cloutier said that Washington, the world's top polluter, was doing too little to limit emissions of carbon dioxide from factories, cars and power plants that are widely blamed by scientists for driving up temperatures.
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Sounds doomed to failure but the victory for the USA could be Pyrrhic, like McD's spat with the London Greenpeace two.

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