t r u t h o u t | Cancun Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture
President Evo Morales, who some are pushing for the Nobel peace prize, recently organized a counter climate summit in Cochabamba. The Bolivian president declares that $300 billion a year is necessary to cope with global warming and is lobbying hard for the formation of an innovative international climate court.COP 15 Bolivia rejects US blame game on Copenhagen and :: PEJ News :: Stories, Features, Opinion and Analysis :: Peace, Earth & Justice News
There's been an escalating war of words between the U.S. and the so-called Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, or ALBA, when it comes to climate change. Take, for example, US climate envoy Jonathan Pershing, who recently lambasted Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. The ALBA nations, Pershing claims, saw the Copenhagen process "not so much as a solution to climate change, but in fact as a mechanism to redistribute global wealth." Somewhat superciliously, Pershing added, "Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, the rest of the world doesn't want to do it that way."
[January '10] Jonathan Pershing said: "Who were they? Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. These are countries that are part of the ALBA group, a group that sees this process not so much as a solution to climate change, but in fact as a mechanism to redistribute global wealth. And they don't like the fact that this did not do that. It didn't do that, and they objected to that fact. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, the rest of the world doesn't want to do it that way. But they couldn't get an agreement, because this group, this narrow group, was blocking it." Pershing says future talks should center around the world's largest polluters instead of trying to go through the UN process. He said, "It is.impossible to imagine a negotiation of enormous complexity where you have a table of 192 countries involved in all the detail."
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Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura are all over the global warming scam. Watch Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" show on the topic, it will have your head spinning.
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