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United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher: green hero?
2013-04-09 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Margaret Thatcher will be remembered for her short lived "green period" in the late 1980s when she helped put climate change (or global warming as it was then known), acid rain and pollution on to the mainstream political map. Tutored by Sir Crispin Tickell, British ambassador to the UN in New York, she made several dramatic environment speeches. The first, to the Royal Society on 27 September 1988, galvanised the emerging green debate in Britain and helped swell the membership of groups like...
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