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Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis
As world leaders start gathering next week in Copenhagen, the people hit hardest by the climate change crisis -- the global poor -- will continue to be systematically excluded from formal discussions of how to address problems like water shortages and crop failures stemming from global warming.
Meanwhile, the world's major corporations have been dominating international and domestic climate policy -- as they did in the international trade policy arena. Carbon-trading and carbon offset projects have already allowed these polluters to avoid cutting emissions and to expand their markets into poor countries, accelerating corporate take-over of the world's resources at the expense of local and indigenous communities.
Whatever happens among the officials gathered in Copenhagen, where 192 nations will come together to try to negotiate a new international climate treaty, climate activists are using the occasion to explore new directions.
Expected to be one of the largest international gatherings ever, with about 15,000 delegates and diplomats working behind the prime ministers and presidents who will make the final decisions, the Copenhagen talks will also be met by a counter-summit featuring tens of thousands of activists, scores of planned protests and talks by people like author and Nation columnist Naomi Klein, author and climate campaigner George Monbiot and the Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva.
Leading up to the Klimaforum09, the alternative "people's summit", is today's Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis. Organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice, the day's actions include demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience in nine US cities one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle.
Check out a map of today's actions and a list of ways you can help support future activism at www.actforclimatejustice.org, read and forward Grist's Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change, and watch TheNation.com for a special "Cop15" blog featuring running dispatches from Copenhagen during the duration of the talks.
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Show AllGlobal Days of action only work if it's more than, say, once a f**king year, okay?
How about a Global Week of Action? Or month?
Every hear of Earth Day? We've had 30 of those and look at how great the environment's doing now...
If the climate situation is truly an emergency, then emergency measures must be taken. And the only way we spoiled, lazy children are ever going to do the right thing is if we're forced.
For example, in most cities, littering is a $500 fine. So why not make 'Failure to Recycle' a $1,000 fine? And if you're littering the air - like a coal plant - millions in fines.
IOW, we need, for lack of a better word, a Dictatorship. Like the Fire Department, or the Military, or the company you work for. When a house is burning, the Fire Chief tells the Crew what MUST BE DONE in order to extinguish the fire ASAP. There are no meetings and reports and follow-up meetings and revised reports... Fire. Out. Now.
Well, Earth is on fire. The only way we're gonna put it out is if a Fire Chief orders us to man the hoses and axes...
totally agree with you............but it's not going to happen!!!!
totally agree with you..........but it's not going to happen!!!!
Hey, do any of these 'Global Days' have room in them for an inclusion of real data to be input into the climate change modeling? Silly me to think that if the situation is so dire that honest data be used. Or am I missing something? Besides of course trust.
Or how about imaginary data? Reams and reams of imaginary studies written by 10 real people who happen to be 10,000 imaginary scientists?
The message that you will never hear at these rallies, is that the government is doing nothing for independent climate inventors. All the government money is flowing to the usual already-well-moneyed suspects. There's no way to break in on sheer merit.
Sorry!
Nope, its not going to happen.
The corporate types are at the conference and they are giving speaches that will say things like "we cannot ask the coal burning power plants to stop producing electricity before their usefull life is over; let us earn our investment back"
Then they will continue to invest in dirty energy such as the tar sands, and demand that they get their money back there too.
I say let them lose money!! They were stupid enough to invest in dirty energy after about 1990, when the world knew that global warming was a problem, so it was a bad investment.
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING!
After Thanksgiving dinner, I asked my 13 yr old grand-daughter what her views on global climate change were and what she thought we should be doing about it. She responded that when she was in 7th grade (last year), her teacher informed the class that "global warming" was a myth, and that even if North America was warming, other parts of the world would off set this by getting colder. She said that her teacher also told them that the only thing that the Earth had to fear was the moon's orbit coming too close to the Earth.
It took some doing to keep myself from stopping her, but I let her finish up, (had to prevent my son and wife from chirping in a couple of times also). When she was done, I simply asked her if she would check on where the earth was getting colder, and to check to see where the ice is melting, to see if it was melting in the southern hemispher as well as the northern.
My grand-daughter is an honor student, and her New Hampshire school system is "suppose" to be of high quality. Listening to her talk however, was as painful as my one hour of Limbaugh each day.
Perhaps the one ACT we should all do, is to visit our local junior high, and high schools and see exactly what is being taught to the students concerning this matter. I suspect that this is not an isolated instance, and if one public school is teaching it, others are as well. just a thought. peace.
Why don't you check where the earth has gotten warmer since '98. The books have been cooked once again by the ponzi scheme specialists of the Globalists. WAKE UP BIG GUY!
Beware of wolves disguised as sheep!
This is the third post that I'm making at CD for Nov. 30th articles, but it's not to spam; it's only to make sure that as many readers at CD get to see this as possible, for the following article makes a very important statement. It's a very important warning that many climate change activists will disagree with whether they like it or not; that is, many or most will not be willing to seriously consider what Professor Chossudovsky says in this piece because many or most climate change activists refuse to seriously consider warnings bearing anything that resembles anti-climate change activism views. That's not the position Professor Chossudovsky really taking, but many activists will read the piece by him in this manner.
Keep an objectively critical, open mind. It's always essential to do so. Wolves pretending to be do-gooders, or disguised as sheep or shepherds of sheep, lurk around every corner; they're "all over the place".
The wolves, btw, aren't all climate change activists; instead, it's the large multinational corporations and their ocntrolled governments and international institutions that they also highly control. Some climate change activists might be guilty; there often or usually are people sent in to work for the elites as infiltrators in activist movements. But that's not the case for most activsts in any case, topic or context.
"Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy""
by Michel Chossudovsky, Nov 30 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16339
I recommend give that article a very serious read.
great article...