Biden fingers culprit to Darfur genocide: ‘Darfur is all about climate change’

 

In an interview with Father Matt Malone, Vice President Joe Biden blames climate change for the genocide in Darfur. Biden: “Look what’s happened with Darfur. Darfur is all about climate change.”

According to the United Human Rights Council, the genocide in Darfur has so far ‘claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people.’

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VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “Sea levels rise another foot, you’ve got tens of millions of people being displaced. You think there’s a migration problem in Syria? Watch what happens when hundreds of millions of people in the south, south Asia are displaced trying to find new territory to live. Look what’s happened with Darfur. Darfur is all about climate change. It’s about arable land being evaporating, figuratively and literally, and warring over land.”

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September 17, 2015

Leo DiCaprio joins campaign to fight global warming by shedding his fossil fuel investments

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NEW YORK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is joining a campaign to use investment decisions to fight global warming: He’s planning to shed his own investments in fossil fuels, an activist group announced Tuesday.

 

The star of “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Blood Diamond” joined members of the Divest-Invest Coalition as it announced his plans and highlighted growth in such pledges during the past year.

 

DiCaprio plans to divest his own and his foundation’s fossil fuel holdings, said Ellen Dorsey, a leader of the campaign and the executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, an environmental grantmaker. The actor didn’t speak at the event.

 

Taking a page from the anti-apartheid movement on college campuses in the 1980s, students began pressing various colleges in 2011 to drop their holdings in the fossil fuel industry and increase their stake in renewable energy companies.…