Monday, April 27, 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE: Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say
That point is emphasised a final declaration signed by the indigenous representatives and Father d’Escoto and which will be presented at the U.N. General Assembly and later at the UNFCCC in Copenhagen this December. The Anchorage Declaration says: "Mother Earth is no longer in a period of climate change, but in climate crisis."

More controversially, it says indigenous people support a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling on indigenous lands and a phase-out of fossil fuels while respecting the rights of indigenous people to develop their resources.

Many participants, and particularly the youth delegates and those from the Pacific region, wanted a full moratorium on new oil and gas drilling and a phase-out of fossil fuels. However, delegates from the oil- and gas-rich Arctic region demurred.
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However, he also felt that support was building amongst indigenous peoples to challenge nation states regarding "false solutions and market-based carbon mitigation schemes" and those trying to profit from the climate crisis.
Green Job Creation is Not the End All Goal » The Foundry
And finally, think of all of the jobs that a program of environmental “stewardship” might make available. Thus each patch of desert, each rock formation, each clump of grass, and each tree stump, might have assigned to it one or more “stewards” whose job would be to watch over it, protect it, and “preserve it for future generations.” To carry out this valuable work, there could be a whole corps of “stewards.” They could be dressed in special uniforms displaying various ranks and medals, all gained in “service to the environment” and the defense of nature and its resources from the humans.

Indeed, once we put our minds to it, nothing is easier than to think of things that would require the performance of virtually unlimited labor in order to accomplish virtually zero result. Such is the nature of all job-creation programs. Such is the nature of environmentalism. Such is thought to be the path to economic recovery by most of today’s intellectual establishment.”

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