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Archive for December, 2009
If you want to save the world
Posted in population growth, tagged videos on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Denialists expose Pachauri
Posted in climate change denialism on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the leaked mails scandal, global warming denialists have again copied the activist strategies from the social movements they are fighting against to expose Pachauri’s connections with carbon trading (Telegraph). Until recently, I have ignored denialists, hoping that their lies would fade as their connections with the fossil fuel industry became known (another recent article [...]
Carbon trading critic censorship
Posted in carbon trading, climate economics on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Clive Spash is a well-known ecological economist. His resume was enough to convince Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an Australian government agency, to hire him. But when he decided to criticize carbon trading, his work became more difficult. It all started when Spash wanted to write a report on the dangers of carbon [...]
A review of COP-15
Posted in activism on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An archive of news, videos and photos from the Copenhagen summit was set up by Rising Tide US and is worth a peek (link).
The People’s Assembly
Posted in activism on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the “Reclaim Power!” (see previous post), this is what happened. A great initiative.
Day 11 – The summit fails but the counter-summit succeeds
Posted in climate negotiations, tagged cop-15 on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the day to make plans for the future. In a sesson on the future of the movement born here, a Climate Justice Action representativa says that we have to attack the institutions which form the basis of the capitalists system because this system is based on growth, so it is not compatible with [...]
Day 10 – Some important lessons from ALBA
Posted in climate politics, tagged cop-15 on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time in the last days, I went straight to the Klima Forum, as there was no demonstration today. There I saw a debate on livestock’s contribution to climate change organized by Compassion in World Farming. A FAO report, “Livestock’s long shadow”, estimated that about 18% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the [...]
Day 9 – Reclaiming Power
Posted in direct action, tagged cop-15 on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Early in the morning we meet at the train station near the Bella Center, where the COP-15 is based. Today was “Reclaim Power!” day, when we would bring the voices of the people inside the summit. The idea was to invade the place, to organize a peoples’ assembly inside. Four groups are formed. The blue [...]
Day 8 – Protests go on and the angry mermaid award is delivered
Posted in activism, tagged cop-15 on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The snow doesn’t stop us In the morning we had “Resistance is ripe! Agriculture Action Day!”. A demonstration defending farmers’ rights against corporate interests denounces as false solutions agro-fuels and bio-plastics, that end up promoting big monocultures. The protest is supported by Friends of the Earth Denmark and Via Campesina and goes on under intense [...]
Day 7 – Copenhagen fills up with protests while police repression mounts
Posted in climate justice, tagged cop-15 on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Playing with the baloon In the morning, we gather in front of the Canadian embassy. Indigenous peoples from Canada’s First Nations are protesting against tar sands development. The extraction of tar sands releases three times more CO2 than regular oil, pollutes the rivers and tears down forests. Representatives from Albertan communities made some dramatic speeches [...]
