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U N Promotes Anti-Capitalism via Global Warming Propaganda
Beware the U.N. in all its
guises- the non-science of global warming.
The following are all quoted
from IPS news articles.
[2010, Apr 19]: The World People's Conference on
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which opened Monday in Bolivia,
will reflect vigorous resistance to financial compensation for forest
conservation in return for permits to emit greenhouse gases, activists told
IPS. [http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51104]
- calls for the creation of an international body
to regulate repayment of the so-called climate debt.
- “The planet is dying," José Ramírez, a
Bolivian who has lived for 43 years in Germany, told IPS emphatically.
- Reducing consumption and living in harmony with
the planet according to the Aymara cultural concept of "allin
kausaw" ("good living") will be agreed worldwide, and the
participation of civil society will not be without influence, says the
doctor, who is in favour of "breaking with the capitalist system.
- The proposal he [Rojas] is expounding at the
Cochabamba Conference is to block the present system of market-based
production with resistance measures and promote "Good Living".
[2010, Apr 19]: The success of the climate change conference taking
place in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba will depend on how unified
civil society ultimately is in its efforts to influence the United Nations
climate summit [http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51099]
- Only presidents who are
personally close to Morales are attending the Cochabamba conference,
such as Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Daniel
Ortega of Nicaragua, and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
- The bulk of the debate will
be led by civil society, which tends to oppose the market-based
mechanisms proposed by most of the governments to fight climate change
- Also up for discussion is
the situation of indigenous peoples and of "climate migrants,"
and possible solutions for financing the transfer of technologies
necessary for communities to adapt to the effects of climate change.
- "Thanks to (President)
Morales we have a rainbow of social and political entities behind this
issue that we couldn't have even dreamed of four months ago,"
including student and labour groups, said Eduardo Giesen, the Latin
America coordinator of Friends of the Earth International's climate
justice programme.
[2010, Apr 18]: European
Activists Against Economic Growth: The global environmental crisis requires replacing
the existing capitalist model of production with one that promotes
"selective degrowth" of the economy and the restricted and
responsible exploitation of natural resources, according to European experts
and activists
[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51090]
- "the goals of this
restructuring of the economy are the conservation of natural resources
and the democratisation of their use in favour of the peoples who live
in the zones of exploitation, like the Amazon or the Congo Basin."
- Climate Justice Action is a federation of
environmental groups and activists that joined forces in 2009 to
coordinate actions during the United Nations Climate Summit in
Copenhagen last December.
- In parallel with degrowth, Latouche promotes
values like frugality, sobriety and austerity - in other words, he calls
for renouncing the uncontrolled consumerism of contemporary capitalist
societies.
- Passadakis suggested that activists promoting
these alternatives should focus on two levels: the national level, to
foment a vision that is ecological and entails economic degrowth,
"for example, through opposition to new carbon-based power plants
and in favour of reducing the workday in order to redistribute employment
and income."
Who is IPS?
Inter Press Service - funded by
the United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam and others.
“Inter Press Service (IPS) is the world’s leading news agency on
issues such as development, environment, human rights and civil society.”
[http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-history/]
[http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-financing/our-supporters/]
Mission: “bear the hopes of Third World countries
and peoples for a new international economic order and, as a consequence, a
new information and communication order within the framework of the United
Nations” [http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-history/]
Civil Society: Although
technically meaning the non-government, non-market sector of society
(civilian organizations), the (post-) modern definition is a codeword for
socialist movements – Wikipedia: “in
the 1990s with the emergence of the nongovernmental organizations and the New
Social Movements (NSMs) on a global scale, civil society as a third sector
became a key terrain of strategic action to construct ‘an alternative social
and world order.’”
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Evo Morales and the
Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change
From the Guardian (2010 Apr
21):
"Planet or
death!" chanted Bolivia's leftwing president, Evo Morales … officially
inaugurating the first international "people's conference" on
climate change. … president [Morales] will have raised some eyebrows though
with bizarre comments in his opening address that baldness is the consequence
of genetically modified chickens and potatoes and that Coca-Cola is
"poison and sewage water". Bolivia's first indigenous president,
a former llama herder and coca grower, added: "Either capitalism dies,
or it will be Mother Earth." [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/21/evo-morales-grassroots-climate-talks]
From Eurasia Review (2010 Apr
21):
“Morales maintained that the wealthy countries of
the world have a debt with the rest of the planet because the “atmospheric
space” is “filled with the emission of winter-effect gases.” He called for
the founding of an international tribunal that would judge cases of
environmental crimes at the UN conference on the environment that is
planned for later this year in Mexico.”
“Morales also claimed that “Baldness that appears
to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that
is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there
are no bald people, because we eat other things,” said the 50 year old
leader. He also claimed that the presence of homosexual men around the
world is a consequence of inadequate nutrition. According to Morales, this
is due to eating chicken saturated with feminizing hormones “The chicken
that we eat is chock-full of feminine hormones. So, when men eat these
chickens, they deviate from themselves as men.” Laughter emerged from the
audience.”
[http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/04/bolivias-president-links-homosexuality.html]
After the conference
From LA Times (2010 Apr 23):
Morales: “How can we as human beings
collectively end irrational industrialization and consumption to cease
provoking irreparable harm to our environment? … We now propose to go one
step further and begin collectively drafting a Universal Declaration of the
Rights of Mother Earth. This will establish a legal framework for
protecting our increasingly threatened natural environment and raising the
global consciousness about Mother Earth, on which we all depend for life.”
[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-0423-morales-20100423,0,6422441.story]
From NZ Herald (2010 Apr
24):
“A conference on climate change wants US$300
billion in annual compensation from wealthy countries and global companies
to deal with global warming effects.”
[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10640574&ref=rss]
From The Guardian UK (2010
Apr 23):
“Rich countries should reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and set up a court to punish climate
crimes, according to an international conference of grassroots climate
groups and social movements in Bolivia. … Speaking at the close … Morales
called on the UN to listen to the voice of the poorest. "The UN has an
obligation to listen to its peoples and social forces. If the UN doesn't
want to lose its authority, they should apply the conclusions of this
conference.”
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/23/cochabamba-climate-court]
From IPS (2010 Apr 23):
“Industrialised countries -- regarded as
responsible because of their leading role in industrial development, which
has caused climate change -- are called on to pay the debt they owe for
polluting the world's atmosphere, on pain of legal action if they fail to
honour this obligation. … The world is experiencing a "great
crisis" in which 75 percent of greenhouse gases are emitted by 25
percent of its countries, the industrialised states, causing direct impacts
such as droughts and floods. … The Cochabamba conference also rejected
carbon compensation schemes, which are mechanisms to compensate the
polluting emissions in rich countries by means of projects that curb
emissions in the developing world … The conference called for the creation
of a climate justice tribunal, with powers to prosecute persons or
companies responsible for pollution, and for a thorough reform of the U.N.
to allow countries that fail to live up to their greenhouse gas reduction commitments
to be put on trial.”
[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51164]
So the developing countries do not want to curb their
own emissions, while forcing wealth transfers from developed nations. Yet
according to the Global Carbon Project, the CO2 emissions from developing
countries now exceeds that from developed countries, as shown in the
following figure.
[http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/08/files/GCP2009_CarbonBudget2008.pdf]
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Washington Post – Redistribution of Wealth
[22 Feb 2010]: “Climate
Insurance”
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/21/AR2010022102917_pf.html]
The article promotes the use of
a carbon tax as a means of redistributing wealth: “A gradually rising carbon tax made sense
even before "global warming" entered most people's vocabulary. …
And if politicians can't bear to stand behind an increased tax, the
revenue from either proposal could all be returned in a fair and progressive
way.” (Returning taxes in a “progressive way” means
redistribution.)
The article also promotes the
common myth about oil, stating that a carbon tax “would reduce American dependence on dictators in
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela while lowering air pollution of all kinds.”
The US imports 65% of its oil. Of this imported oil, about 10% comes from
Saudi Arabia and 10% from Venezuela. (10% of 65% imports = 6.5% of the total
oil consumption). More than 20% of the imported oil comes from Canada. (See: http://www.appinsys.com/oil/)
The article reiterates the
common AGW lie: “there
are few reputable scientists who would disagree with anything in that first
paragraph … [the first paragraph: The
Earth is warming. A chief cause is the increase in greenhouse gases
accumulating in the atmosphere. Humans are at least in part responsible,
because the oil, gas and coal that we burn releases these gases. If current trends persist,
it's likely that in coming decades the globe's climate will change with
potentially devastating effects for billions of people.]” They cite
the IPCC as their source.
Yet there are likely as many
climate scientists who disagree –
See: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/TheExperts.htm
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