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Comments: Tens of thousands starving to death in East Africa

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This is an important story and it is getting some coverage in North America/UK but not nearly at the level of the Murdoch affair. There is little doubt climate change will result in a drier southern Africa. (It is likely happening already although to soon to prove).

In my IPS article last year Phil Thornton (not Thorton) said raid-fed ag will become very difficult to do in Africa when global temps reach 2 degrees C. That's not far away. http://bit.ly/icuw5g

Wrote a more recent piece on climate refugees --where 1 billion are at future risk and how MIGRATION must be allowed within countries and across borders.
http://bit.ly/mLt80w

Stephen Leahy

"One death is a tragedy a million deaths is a Statistic" -Joseph Stalin

Jorge Garica Jr,

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