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Below is a re-post of an article in Times Live, Stop these crimes against humanity, by freelance writer, David le Page, working part time at the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute. (Bold added for emphasis by ecoSanity, as well as links at end of post.)

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Parliament has been holding hearings on South Africa's climate change green paper. We must hope truth will emerge, for the truth is a hard thing to come by when it concerns the global addiction to fossil fuels.

The danger posed by further carbon emissions is now so great, and the evidence for that danger now so overwhelming, that any proposal to expand fossil-fuel production - not least the natural gas exploitation plans of Shell, Sasol and others in the Karoo - should now be regarded as a crime against humanity.

When government licenses continued fossil-fuel production - in the absence of an absolute commitment to a low or zero-carbon economy - it, too, is committing a crime against humanity. And when the media fail to communicate this crisis, they are complicit in crimes against humanity.