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Published online 2 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454012b
Oil and food costs may bump climate at G8 talks
Rich nations and emerging economies join to discuss world's most pressing issues.
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It is comforting to note that this year G8 talks will tackle the oil and food crisis apart from the global warming issue. G8 consists of the world most powerful and richest nations. Indeed, if it cannot resolve imminent problems of global magnitude, no other international body can. Let us hope that G8 would not overprotect their self interests this time. It should consider the plight of the underdeveloped countries. There has been acutely unequal distribution of wealth and resources in this world. Often, crisis occurs not because of insufficiency of materials, but more on imbalance dispensation of assets. This will definitely be a better world for all if equitable sharing can be effected at the global level. Live and let live.
It is comforting to note that this year G8 talks will tackle the oil and food crisis apart from the global warming issue. G8 consists of the world most powerful and richest nations. Indeed, if it cannot resolve imminent problems of global magnitude, no other international body can. Let us hope that G8 would not overprotect their self interests this time. It should consider the plight of the underdeveloped countries. There has been acutely unequal distribution of wealth and resources in this world. Often, crisis occurs not because of insufficiency of materials, but more on imbalance dispensation of assets. This will definitely be a better world for all if equitable sharing can be effected at the global level. Live and let live. (Tan Boon Tee)