MOVING BEYOND THE GREENWASH- G8 CLIMATE COUNTER SUMMIT
TO COINCIDE WITH THE INTERANTIONAL ENERGY ROUNDTABLE
LONDON, 14 MARCH 2005.

As the international roundtable meets in London,
activists against the oil industry, have invited
others angered by the hypocricy of Blair's discourse
on Climate Change tol meet at an open counter summit
this week to discuss strategies and share reports from
around the world on the tragedies of the green
capitalist solutions to climate change. Naomi Price
said, „There are certainly differences of opinion
between the campaigns that will attend the counter
summit, but we must find common ground. Blair and by
extension the G8 are attempting to steal the moral
high ground on climate change while taking no real
action. They plough on with plans for new roads,
subsisideies to the aviation industry and outrageous
tax breaks to fossil fuel industry and utterly ignore
the over consumption and consumerism that has got us
in to this mess. Blair has chosen Climate change as an
attempt to distance himself from Bush and to
de-legitimise protest against the G8.‰

One common belief is that protest and direct action
are necessary to bring these issues to the public
without a party political spin which has taken a vow
of silence on calling attention to the underlying
reasons for the ecological destruction that we face as
a planet. They also empower people to act to retake
control and build local self managed sustainable
projects. Naomi added „This is not a green issue. It
is essential that more radical perspectives are not
further marginalised by Blair's rhetoric.‰ Dave
Longsight said, „Capitalism is fuelled by oil, and
burning oil causes climate change. We will not see any
significant reduction in carbon emissions while the
oil corporations are permitted to make record breaking
profits from exploiting the future of the earth.‰*

Around the world every day there is resistance against
corporations that exploit natural resources and yet we
rarely hear of their struggles.‰ First hand reports on
how Kyoto's so called Clean Development Mechanisms are
creating green deserts and destroying indigenous
peoples in Brazil, updates from the anti-roads
movement in the UK, plans for the International Day of
Action on the root causes of Climate Change on the 8th
July, (last day of the G8 summit,) the nuclear
backlash and the greenwash guerillas. The counter
summit will inspire all those who want to take action
on this issue that it is not a case of not knowing
what to do but needing more people to get to it.

Contact: London Rising Tide, on See
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