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Oxfam GB - 25 years on from the 1984 famine in Ethiopia that killed one million people, the food crisis in East Africa continues. With a new report out today Oxfam highlights the need to rethink food aid. Speaking as the 'face of hope' for Ethiopia, survivor Birhan Woldu, tells us why she agrees.

Source: www.oxfam.org.uk

Carteret Islands sunk by climate change

17 April 2009

For most people in the UK, climate change feels like something that will happen at some undefined point in the future - to our children and grandchildren's generation.

For the people of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea, it's a bit more serious than "one of those summers". As the sea level rises, their drinking water and crops have been poisoned by salt. The 1000 Islanders are packing up and their home abandoned to the waves.

They are the first entire people to officially be evacuated because of climate change.

For Ursula Rakova, seeing her ancestral homeland disappear is a hard reality. As she says, "Climate change is not just about statistics. Climate change is not just about science. Climate change is about human rights."

Ian Sullivan is a campaigner at Oxfam

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Age of Stupid on the BBC

On Monday 14th December 2009, BBC4 at 10pm, You can watch The Age of Stupid.
Here's proof!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk50/mon.shtml
Scroll to the bottom of that page.

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The Age of Stupid is a 2008 film by Director Franny Armstrong ( McLibel, Drowned Out) and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. It is a co-production between Franny's company Spanner Films and Executive Producer 10:10 campaign.

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

The film was released in 2009 and became one of the most talked-about films of the year. It also spawned the hugely-successful 10:10 campaign.