Originally published July 30 2005
Clinton warns against the dangers of global warming
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Former President Bill Clinton, in a meeting with Nelson Mandela and young South Africans, warned about the dangers of global warming.
Former President Clinton sounded a warning Tuesday against the dangers of climate change as he met with young South Africans, and had lunch with anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Clinton was mobbed at a youth event hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.
Young volunteers and their suited sponsors crowded around Clinton to take photographs and asked for autographs.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, with former US President Bill Clinton, right, at Mandela's home in Johannesburg Tuesday July 19, 2005.
Clinton had lunch with Mandela and is later scheduled to attend an annual lecture in honour of Mandela who turned 87 Monday.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, with former US President Bill Clinton, right, at Mandela's home in Johannesburg Tuesday July 19, 2005.
"Not very far from you in the South Pole in the last 10 years, 12 chunks of ice the size of Rhode Island have broken off," Clinton told the volunteers with City Year South Africa, a youth service organization he helped inspire.
Bush rejects U.S. participation in the Kyoto protocol negotiated by Clinton's administration, arguing its caps on greenhouse gas emissions would damage the U.S. economy.
He arrived in South Africa late Monday after stops in Lesotho and Mozambique, two nations hard-hit by the pandemic ravaging the continent.
Clinton urged the young to set aside differences and remember their "common humanity."
"Most of the headlines today are full of sad stories _ September 11, 2001, the horrible day in London a couple of days ago, when people die of suicide attacks in the Middle East," Clinton said.
"In every case where there is a human-caused tragedy, it is because the people involved thought their differences were more important than their common humanity."
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