The still-unfolding global financial crisis is claiming casualties far beyond either Wall Street or Main Street. With all eyes on financial markets and economic ministers, problems that only months ago were described as "urgent" and "historic" seem tohave slipped off political leaders' radar screens. Climate change was commonly termed a "planetary emergency," modern species loss represented "the first mass extinction in 65 million years," and billions living on US 2 dollar a day in a world of unprecedented wealth was nothing less than a "global scandal." Yet the global credit crunch threatens to slow funding for environmental and anti-poverty programs to a trickle.
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