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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: "Urgent warning"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.021913.28231@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan12.111839.10118@ac.dal.ca> <90236@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1993Jan12.201034.8018@vexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 02:19:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.201034.8018@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >>|In The Chronicle-Herald : The Mail-Star Saturday, January 9, 1993 C2,
- >>|David Suzuki, a Canadian scientist and writer mentioned that at "The end
- >>|of November, the prestigious Union of Concerned Scientists released an
- >>|urgent warning tha the planet is undergoing catastrophic ecological change
- >>|that threatens all of humankind. Their global call to action was signed
- >>|by over 1500 senior scientists, including 101 Nobel laureates from around the
- >>|world".
- >
- >He never said environmental scientists. The UCS sent the "Global Warning"
- >to all living nobel laureates in the sciences, all members of the
- >National Academy of Sciences and most members of other scientific
- >academies around the world. The majority of these Nobel
- >laureates have endorsed the warning, along with many academy members.
- >The recent issue of the UCS publication "Nucleus" contains the
- >entire text of the warning.
-
- I should hope that this "Warning" supports building nuclear power plants,
- since a vast majority of laureates and NAS members do.
-
- Tino
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