Fidel Castro Censures
G8's Lack of
Environmental Compromise
Former Cuban leader
Fidel Castro has
censured the lack of
more environmental
compromise from the
Group of Eight (G8)
nations at their recent
summit in Hokkaido,
Japan.
At the summit, the
world's most
industrialized countries
pledged to halve
greenhouse gas emissions
worldwide by 2050.
However, Castro
expressed doubts on
whether a 42-year plan
would finally be
realized.
In an article titled
"The impotence of the
potencies" released by
the press Tuesday,
Castro spoke about "a
kind of danger of
extinction", expressing
worry that humanity
could be wiped out one
day in an environmental
crisis or a military
conflict.
"A swarm of national and
international problems
is coming over all of
them (G8), and these
problems need urgent
solutions," Castro said.
None of the critical
problems that inspired
this "strange summit"
had been solved, he
added.
G8 members Japan,
Germany, France, United
Kingdom, Italy, Canada
and Russia face the
growing political,
economic, technological
and military control of
fellow-member the United
States, said Castro.
He also censured a U.S.
senate law for
modernizing spying and
providing immunity to
telecom companies that
collaborate with the
government on the
pretext of fighting
terrorism.
The G8 leaders met from
July 7 to 9 in Hokkaido.
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