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Archbishop urges help for UK hungry

2014-12-07 16:35:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

More help is needed to prevent UK families going hungry, the Archbishop of Canterbury says ahead of a parliamentary report on the issue.

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S. African archbishop Desmond Tutu describes Alberta oilsands as filth

2014-05-31 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CP: Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu has called Alberta's oilsands ``filth'' created by greed, and has urged all sides to work together to protect the environment and aboriginal rights. "The fact that this filth is being created now, when the link between carbon emissions and global warming is so obvious, reflects negligence and greed,'' Tutu told more than 200 attendees at a conference on oilsands development and treaty rights in Fort McMurray on Saturday. "The oilsands are emblematic of an era...

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United Kingdom: Former Archbishop of Canterbury blames climate change on western lifestyle

2014-03-31 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Rowan Williams, chairman of Christian Aid and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has blamed western lifestyles for climate change. He warned that this unsustainable way of life was pushing the environment towards a crisis. His comments coincide with the release of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which warns that no nation will be left untouched by the effects of a warming Earth. Williams describes the report as putting our local problems into a deeply...

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United Kingdom: Former archbishop Canterbury reveals global climate change fears

2014-03-30 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his fears for the global climate, saying the winter flooding was a portent of what is to come. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he blamed the lifestyle of western countries, which he said was "pushing the environment towards crisis". He said the floods in Britain and similar weather-related catastrophes around the world are the clearest indications yet that predictions of "accelerated warming of the Earth" caused by the uncontrolled...

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