Costa Rica to be carbon neutral by 2030


	Costa Rica to be carbon neutral by 2030

Wadard

5-28-2007 8:09 AM

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global warming

Wadard says:

In the early 1893 New Zealand was the first nation in the world to enfranchise women. Look at the revolution this started. Can you conceive that women shouldn't have the vote?

Nobody can take that away from the Kiwis (Even though the Aussies came a close second in 1901). If Costa Rica does achieve their ambition to become the first carbon neutral country, nobody will be able take that from them either. Our future lies in a world where we cannot conceive of not striving to be carbon neutral.

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