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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, speaking with environment correspondent Roger Harrabin of BBC Radio 4′s Today program, said the public has a moral responsibility to change lifestyles. The consequences if they do not, Williams warned, would be the deaths of billions of people worldwide from the effects of extreme climate change. He said the Bible made it clear that God would not forgive people who had been warned they were doing wrong. And he said US President George W Bush’s stance of refusing to cut emissions because it might compromise American jobs was not compatible with a Christian point of view.

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Montreal’s Carolyn Walsh-Dawson (centre) protests global warming with Rev. Wendy Eyre-Gray and David Dranchuk of New Westminster.

Yesterday the United Church of Canada sent a letter to the Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of Environment, Rona Ambrose and Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn reminding them that climate change is a Canadian problem, as an arctic country we are very vulnerable to climate change impacts. The letter also strongly encouraged Stephen Harper to maintain expand programs whereby all Canadians can make a positive contribution to reducing emissions such as the One Tonne Challenge program.

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According to an article in Slash Dot Google has been accused of being the biggest threat to biodiversity this year for its plan to create a searchable database of genetic information. From an article in Znet: ‘Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week.

The organisers allege that Google’s collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.