Thursday, October 01, 2009

Consensus builds: Daughter of the guy who voices the French Ned Flanders fears carbon dioxide

Global Humanitarian Forum | Kofi Annan launches climate justice campaign track
At the launch, Melanie Laurent, star of Quentin Tarantino’s latest blockbuster, ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ said:

"The next Kyoto agreement is hugely important to get right because the last one got it so wrong.

"The single greatest contribution to the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is not the burning of fossil fuels by the transport sector, nor is it industrial pollution, it is deforestation..."
Kofi Annan: Biography from Answers.com
Annan abides by a lesson he learned back in his college days. Unused to the frigid winters of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he studied economics at Macalester College, he took one look at the local students and decided they looked ridiculous in their huge earmuffs. Then he took a walk around campus. When his ears froze, he went out and bought earmuffs.
Mélanie Laurent: Information from Answers.com
Laurent was born in Paris. Her mother is a ballerina[1] and her father is a voiceover actor (who plays the character Ned Flanders in the French version of The Simpsons)

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