Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen ...
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JOSE RAMOS HORTA ‐ TEXT OF PRESENTATION TO THE 2009 OLYMPIC CONGRESS<br />
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countries, who have not seen much benefits from<br />
industrialisation <strong>and</strong> modernisation <strong>and</strong> yet are<br />
becoming the main victims of climate change.<br />
My preference is that we should not point fingers at<br />
each other, the poor blaming the rich<br />
for the nefarious effects of climate change, but the<br />
poor must do small things or actually big things in our<br />
own countries as I do in my country; in planting trees,<br />
stop the deforestation through slash <strong>and</strong> burn or<br />
unscrupulous logging, cleaning our rivers, lakes <strong>and</strong><br />
seas. If all the nations were to do this, we would<br />
already contribute to reduce up to 25% in global<br />
emission.<br />
When mother earth is plagued with a cancer of this<br />
magnitude, it is not surprising that sport<br />
becomes less prevalent in the vocabulary of our young<br />
people today. Sport is little used as a policy tool to<br />
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