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Public Meeting: Global Economic Meltdown and the Climate Crisis What’s the Connection?
Activists in lots of countries across the world are occupying streets. The occupations began in New York’s financial district, to protest against corporate greed. It’s no accident that the target of people’s anger is the banks and the world of private finance. The global economy is in the worst crisis since the 1930’s, if not ever. The banks is where the crisis started, they are at its heart. But it’s the logic of the system, always protect profit before people – and representatives coming to the COP17 in Durban are under even more pressure not to commit to anything that will eat into profit at this shaky time. They will be likely to shift the responsibility away from their own economies and on to others. The US is doing just this and so is China – both saying they want the other to commit to more before they agree. Instead of a legally binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions we could easily end up with nothing – and at the same time, Africa, the world’s smallest carbon polluter, is feeling the impacts of climate change in the form of devastating drought in some areas and rising food prices each and every day. The young, the working class and the oppressed have begun to take a stand and to think collectively about creative solutions to the big problems of the world – and to demand climate and economic justice.
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Durban Climate Justice – a national and international coalition of climate justice organisations Democratic Left Front Johannesburg Forum JOIN THE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING 3rd December 2011 Rehad Desai Uhuru Productions/Tri - Continental Film Festival Tel +27 (0) 11 334 6138/48 Fax +27 (0) 11 334 6394 www.uhuruproductions.co.za www.3continentsfestival.co.za www.people2people.co.za Bookmark this article:          |
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