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		<title>Carbon Life: Bacteria to President Barack Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life survives miles below the Earth&#8217;s surface By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 5 2013 (IPS) Every living thing from bacteria to President Barack Obama is made of carbon from exploding stars. Billions of years ago, motes of carbon and other stardust formed the Earth. Carbon is the basis of all life but most vanished [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7689&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Wanted: 27 Planet Earths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was featured on the IPS wire and on the Al Jazeera network in 2011. It shows that national parks, conservation and protected areas do not and cannot halt the decline in biodiversity that is humanity&#8217;s life support system. It is hopeless without addressing the root causes: too many of us, taking too much and having too big of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7989&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governments Fail to Take Steps to Steer Away From Looming Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Rio+20 should have been about life, about the future of our children&#8221; By Stephen Leahy RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 19 2012 (IPS) “Very disappointing.” That was the term business and non-governmental organisations used to describe the formal intergovernmental negotiations at the Rio+20 Earth Summit as of Tuesday. With overwhelming scientific evidence showing that the Earth’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7717&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Should be Shaking in Our Boots&#8221; &#8211; UN Environment Official</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth&#8217;s Ability to Support Us At Risk &#8211; An Indictment of Governments We Elected By Stephen Leahy RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 19 2012 (IPS) The science is crystal clear: humans are threatening Earth’s ability to support mankind, and a new world economy is urgently needed to prevent irreversible decline, said scientists and other experts at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7718&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concrete Sustainable Development Goals the Only Recipe for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Secure a Viable Future for All By Stephen Leahy RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 16 (TerraViva) Goals drive action, and that’s why establishing a set of Sustainable Development Goals is so important to put the world on a sustainable pathway, experts said Saturday under the tropical fig and palm forest that covers much of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7723&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Countries Need to Green, Low Carbon Economies to End Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low Carbon, Green Only Way Out of Poverty Trap RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 15 (TerraViva) Poor countries that green their economies will lift millions of their citizens out of poverty and generate higher incomes while protecting invaluable natural ecosystems, says a report released here in Rio Thursday. Some developing countries are actively pursuing a transition [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7725&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voice of Youth Ignored by Governments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking away the voice of the next generation By Stephen Leahy RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 17 (TerraViva) Youth and future generations do not deserve a voice in their own future, the Brazilian government appears to have arbitrarily decided here at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, where the theme is “The Future We Want”. Representatives [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7724&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Rights of Future Generations &#8211; The Injustice of Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who will speak for future generations? By Stephen Leahy  UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 5, 2012 (Tierramérica) The theme of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is “The Future We Want”, but there is no official role for youth nor a spokesperson for future generations who will inherit that futur Now there is a growing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7726&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24 Policies That Can End Our Earth Emergency</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2013/04/03/24-policies-that-can-end-our-earth-emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ecological literacy is vital for those in positions of power and influence&#8221; Never vote for anyone who isn&#8217;t literate By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 7 2012 (IPS) Ecologically ignorant policies are largely responsible for the interlinked crises that are unraveling the planet’s life support system. The unintended consequences of such policies are climate change, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7727&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We’re all scared&#8230;But we must tell the truth&#8221; &#8212; Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2013/04/02/were-all-scared-but-we-must-tell-the-truth-experts-fear-collapse-of-global-civilisation/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 11 2013 (IPS) Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. “We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. “But [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&#038;blog=466880&#038;post=7497&#038;subd=stephenleahy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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