Naomi Klein: We are going backwards, COP21 is the opposite of progress
Naomi Klein speaks about the limits of the Paris climate talks and how climate change is an accelerator that makes pre-existing problems worse.
Month: December 2015
Climate Change: Root causes not addressed in Paris
Source: Times Argus
Tomorrow kicks off the final week of negotiations here in Paris at the United Nations’ COP21 climate talks.
I’m here as one of two representatives of the Vermont Workers’ Center, joining a delegation of more than 100 grass-roots leaders from the United States and Canada who have traveled to Paris to speak out against the proposed global climate agreement, which falls far short of what is needed to avoid global catastrophe.
Unlike many of the jet-setting conference-goers here in Paris, this is my first time crossing the Atlantic. I’m a single mom with two kids, born and raised in Brattleboro. Since I was a teenager, fighting for economic and racial justice has been a matter of survival. Through my work with the Vermont Workers’ Center and our national allies, I’ve come to see the interconnections between environmental and social justice issues and the need to build unity between our movements.
Indigenous knowledges against the colonization and destruction of Mother Earth
Source: Pambazuka News
The “green economy” is nothing more than capitalism of Nature. It is a more extreme attempt by corporations, extractive industries and governments of mainly the industrialized countries towards developing mechanisms for cashing in on Creation. This is achieved by privatizing, commodifying and selling off all forms of life.
All humans have two things in common and that is, we walk on two legs and on each hand we have five fingers that we use in common. We are taught from infancy to use these hands and fingers as gifts of the Creator. The Indigenous cosmovision teaches me, for each finger to work together in solidarity, and with the totality of the fingers and hands, we are to help each other, in respect of each other.
Naomi Klein: Taking Climate Change Seriously
Source: Jacobin
Naomi Klein on the crackdown against COP21 protesters and why “system change not climate change” is more than a slogan.
Last year, the Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein trained her focus on climate change with her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. In the past year, she’s also been busy launching the Leap Manifesto, a document signed by scores of prominent Canadians that lays out a plan to wean the country off fossil fuels.
So with world leaders assembled in Paris to hash out a climate accord, what are Klein’s thoughts regarding how things stand in the battle against global warming?
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