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Guardian: Are export processing zones the new sweatshops, or drivers of development?
[The Guardian (blog)] - The organisation War on Want and local development groups argue that the wealth created has made little improvement to the lives of ordinary workers, despite the creation of millions of jobs. John Vidal travelled with the Bangladesh government.
Google News: Rio+20: African Nations Fear Europe's Green Agenda
[Canada Free Press] - John Vidal, The Guardian, 26 April A United Nations meeting on the environment opened Monday with an official forecast that the world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now.
Guardian: Paul Ehrlich on depopulation: 'We're going to go over the top' - audio
[The Guardian] - Paul Ehrlich, American professor and bestselling author, talks to John Vidal about population decline. Professor Ehrlich voices his concerns about depleting global resources and discusses his predictions for the future of our planet.
Scraping the Bottom
www.huffingtonpost.com
[Huffington Post (blog)] - “Supporters of the scheme argued that it could be a model for change in the way the world pays to protect important places,” writes John Vidal in The Guardian. “The money raised is guaranteed to be used only for nature protection and renewable energy
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