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- Copenhagen: Chavez Salutes Climate Protestors“I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets … One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the System!’ – And I bring that on board for us. Let’s not change the climate. Let’s change the system!” by Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis, December 16th 2009, During his speech to the 15th United Nations Climate Change ...---READ-->>
- Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critiqueBy Patrick Bond Eight million people have viewed Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute The Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch. The film, produced by Free Range Studios, was developed in collaboration with the Durban Group for Climate Justice ...---READ-->>
- Venezuela: What's Happening in Copenhagen is UnacceptableDeveloped nations will be judged by the world for what they are doing at the moment … we are not going to let them get away with it Published by Telesur, December 15th 2009. Translated by Kiraz Janicke for Venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan delegation to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, denounced Tuesday the attitude of developed countries in ...---READ-->>
- Interview with Bolivia's Climate Change AmbassadorFor the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision by Robert Eshelman The Nation, December 9, 2009 On day three of COP15, I spoke with Bolivian Climate Change Ambassador Pablo Erick Solón Romero ...---READ-->>
- Klimaforum: A People's Declaration on Climate ChangeSystem Change, not Climate Change! Statement issued by Klimaform09 in Copenhagen, December 10, 2009 Summary There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more ...---READ-->>
- Copenhagen eyewitness: The rising tide of climate justiceA first-hand report from the largest climate protest ever by Lauren Carroll Harris Green Left Weekly, December 14, 2009 (Copenhagen) One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate ...---READ-->>
- Climate Catastrophe and Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Access to WaterTwo aspects of contemporary barbarism … by Javier Sethness Amnesty International has recently released two reports on Israeli water policy that present a rather thoroughgoing indictment of the Zionist colonization project broadly conceived. Entitled “Thirsting for Justice: Palestinian Access to Water Restricted” and “Troubled Waters: Palestinians Denied Fair Access to Water,” the reports join many other ...---READ-->>
- Leaked Document Shows Rich Nations Plan Climate Coup in CopenhagenDeveloping countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol by John Vidal The Guardian, December 8, 2009 The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week ...---READ-->>
- Climate protests, capitalism and the working class movementThe working class movement will only be rebuilt as part of a new political response to the failures of neo-liberal capitalism – a response that includes addressing climate change and ecology by Barry Kade Considering normally climate demos only attract a few thousand, last Saturday’s protest in London and elsewhere of 50,000 was massive. This is because A) ...---READ-->>
- Why Population Isn’t the Problem“There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” -H. L. Mencken---READ-->>
- Video: Those Hacked E-mailsThe least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole…---READ-->>
- Video: The Story of Cap and TradeA fast-paced, fact-filled look at the climate solution most favored by profiteers. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals …. The Story of Cap & Trade.---READ-->>
- Monbiot: Canada threatens the well-being of the world“Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.” By George Monbiot Talk in Toronto, November 28, 2009 published in The Guardian 30 November 2009 When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s ...---READ-->>
- Copenhagen and Seattle: From climate denialism to activist alliancesWe need to learn the main lesson from Seattle: by walking out and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress By Patrick Bond Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites’ stiffened spines. That’s a great development ...---READ-->>
- Ecuador: Dirty War in the AmazonIn the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen? by Christine Toomey Times Online, November 29, 2009 Torrential rain has washed ...---READ-->>
- The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversyTo doubt the greenhouse effect or to doubt major anthropogenic climate change is about as sensible as doubting anthropogenic lung cancer by Rupert Read (Our Kingdom, Nov 25, 2009) It is day six of the ‘scandal’ over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in which a ...---READ-->>
- Is China to blame for climate change?Western rulers are attempting to deflect responsibility by obscuring their part in pushing up China’s carbon emissions by Sadie Robinson Socialist Worker (Britain), November 24, 2009 Bitter rows over who is responsible for climate change lie behind much of the dithering by world leaders in the run up to the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next ...---READ-->>
- Climate Scientists: Commonwealth Should Suspend Canada“If the Commonwealth is serious about holding its members to account, then threatening the lives of millions of people in developing countries should lead to the suspension of Canada’s membership immediately” by Damian Carrington The Guardian, November 26 2009 Prominent campaigners, politicians and scientists have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate ...---READ-->>
- Climate Change Already Ravaging AfricaThe continent accounts for just four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but suffers the most from its effects. By Boris Bachorz Agence Presse France, November 21, 2009 NAIROBI – From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the ...---READ-->>
- Climate Scientists: Delay risks irreversible damageIn a new report, ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago. Executive Summary The most significant recent climate change findings are: Surging greenhouse gas emissions: ...---READ-->>