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Karunanidhi calls for joint effort to fight global warming

Staff Reporter

Flags off world tour undertaken by two environmentalists

— Photo: S. R. Raghunathan

LAUNCHING A DRIVE : Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi handing over a model Hyundai car key to R. Gnanasekaran and T. Srinivasa Rao, environmentalists, at a function in Chennai on Sunday. Heung Soo Lheem, managing director, Hyundai Motor India, is in the picture.

CHENNAI: Fighting global warming requires a joint global effort, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said.

Flagging off a world tour undertaken by two environmentalists at a function got up by the Communist Party of India on the Marina on Sunday, the Chief Minister said though the inauguration was a simple affair, their mission to create awareness about global warming and the need to save rainforests would have a big impact.

T. Srinivasa Rao and R. Gnanasekaran are on their seventh world tour to campaign for peace and the environment. Hyundai has provided its Tucson SUV for the tour.

Wishing them all success, Mr. Karunanidhi lauded the efforts of the two “ambassadors of Tamil Nadu” to spread the message far and wide and unite the nations to work together to safeguard people from the consequences.

Ministers Arcot N. Veeraswamy and K. Ponmudy, CPI State general secretary D. Pandian and Hyundai Motor India’s Managing Director H.S. Lheem were present.

The two environmentalists have travelled across the continents for the past 18 years on different missions. This time, they expect to cover over 30 countries, passing through forests of Africa and the Amazon river basin before concluding their tour in April 2009.

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