WSF 2009: Indigenous Activists Send SOS for the Amazon : Climate and Capitalism

A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message “SOS Amazon” to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).

The mass message reflects “our concern about global warming, whose impact we will be the first to feel, although we, the peoples of the Amazon, have protected and cared for the forests,” Francisco Avelino Batista, an Apurinán Indian from the Purus river valley in the Brazilian Amazon, told IPS.

“We are raising our voices as a wake-up call to the world, especially the rich countries that are hastening its destruction,” said Edmundo Omoré, a member of the Xavante indigenous community from the west-central state of Mato Grosso on the border between the Amazon region and the Cerrado, a vast savannah region in the centre of the country.
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The presence at the WSF of presidents of Amazon region countries like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, as well as Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, should increase the impact of the event, hopefully benefiting the peoples of the Amazon, Machado concluded.

Indigenous peoples’ voices should be heard, because “we are the ones who were born and raised in the middle of the forest, and who lead a lifestyle that contrasts with the ambition of capitalism, which does not bring benefits to all,” said Omoré.

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Difficult to see any difference, even though the global warmers have consistently claimed significant melting of the ice caps over time, assisted by the media who can only find icebergs breaking off the continental shelf in summer!

If ALL human activities CEASED in Alaska TODAY the effect on global temperature in 2100 would be 0,001 C

A cessation of ALL OF Alaska’s anthropogenic CO2 emissions, that is a TOTAL STOP for ALL HUMAN activities and a deportation of ALL HUMANS from Alaska, would result in a Global temperature reduction by the year 2100 of one thousandths of a degree Celsius (0,001).

Who Else Is Tired Of Being Cold - SeanPAune.com

Something has changed. “Global Warming”, “Climate Change”, whatever word we’re using today, you can add me to the believer list because things have obviously changed with the climate over the past several years. What exactly? Well, I’m certainly no scientist, but something for sure is different about the winters, and I sure as heck don’t like it.

One quick example is my warehouse and it’s heating system. This is our 6th winter in this building, and each year prior to this one, we have gotten by on about 250 gallons of natural gas for an entire winter season. Well, I came in the office Saturday morning and discovered… no heat. It’s only January and we’ve already burned through our usual allotment for the entire winter. No, we haven’t been setting heat higher or anything, it is just that much colder.