The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, intervened to gag a senior official from testifying last year to the public health problems caused by climate change, according to a Bush administration whistleblower.

In a letter released today, the former climate adviser at the US environmental protection agency (EPA) said Cheney's office pushed to delete "any discussion of the human health consequences of climate change" from testimony by America's senior disease control official.

"We know that the administration's efforts have been about covering up the real dangers of global warming and hiding the facts from the public," the Democratic senator who received Burnett's letter, environment committee chairwoman Barbara Boxer, said.

Protecting the environment from pollution and reducing industrial activity, hurt the profit-machine, so no wonder there is political pressure to ignore global warming. As long as we pursue profit as the highest goal for society, we'll end up self-destroying and take everything beautiful with us. Cheney is not the real enemy here, but a societal design telling us that life is all about producing and consuming goods. Not only does it make us neurotic as human beings, but it's dangerous to our health and the planet we live on. Time to change paradigm. Time for Corrupt to take over.

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