Margaret Thatcher on global warming

Title

Margaret Thatcher on global warming

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

6 Nov 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:51

Description

Tim Locke reports on speech by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the 2nd world climate conference in Geneva on global warming (includes excerpts). She compares the threat of global warming to that of tyrants like Saddam Hussein, says we should take action sooner rather than later and on pollution targets and their cost.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Tim Locke

Keywords

Geneva; Pollution; Conferences; Climate change; Global warming; Air pollution; Saddam Hussein; Ozone depletion

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