The environmental issue Tony Blair wants discussed at the G8 summit is climate change, but here at the G8 Alternatives Summit they have another idea: climate justice. A panel in Edinburgh's Queen's Hall is discussing the impact that environmental damage, mostly caused by coporations, has on the poorest and most vulnerable people.
Bianca Jagger has told the audience of what she witnessed among the indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where contaminated water supplies from oil drilling led to blistering skin and miscarriages.
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