Study Finds Many Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change

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http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/pan/Study-Finds-Many-Africans-Blame-Themselves-for-Climate-Change-88200302.html

Study Finds Many Africans Blame Themselves for Climate Change

Selah Hennessy | London 17 March 2010

A new survey has found that many Africans blame themselves for climate change. A pan-African research project has found that many Africans don't connect changes to the weather with global causes such as emissions of carbon dioxide.

Africa Talks Climate, a research report from the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council, set out to learn about public understanding of climate change in Africa. Over 1,000 people took part in talks across ten Africa countries, including Sudan, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana.

Sam Otieno is a Kenya researcher for Africa Talks Climate. "They understand and they can see and they are already experiencing the changes and how these changes are affecting them and they can explain that very eloquently. But there is a problem in terms of how they are going to live with these changes and how they are trying to cope and many of them probably feel unable to cope."

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He says many people interviewed thought local issues were the cause. "People tend to look at the things that are happening in the environment and in their climate and they tend to blame it on the local human activity, such as local deforestation," Otieno said.

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Well, now, that's justice... :cry:

[pscot]

1. We are all guilty

and our children will pay.

[kestrel91316]

4. THEY are a damned sight less "guilty" than we wealthy westerners.

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5. True

n/t

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. Dammit.

x(

That really stings.

[NNadir]

3. Well you have to admit that very few of them drive Tesla cars, or have received tax breaks on,,,

...installing a $75,000 solar PV system on their $400,000 suburban home, so I guess it is their fault.

I mean after all, isn't it fashionable these days to complain about China's role in climate change. How dare they produce slightly more carbon dioxide than the United States, which has 1/4 the population of China?

When in doubt, blame the poor. It's better if you can get the poor to agree with you and to blame themselves.