Sandra Wainright, from Manchester Climate Action said, “the event was frustrating. Despite our intervention the debate was centred around carbon and totally ignored human rights abuse associated with corporations like Shell.”
The debate was predictably narrow, with a panel made up of 5 middle-aged white men who spoke of techno-fix solutions, saying that political will is our only constraint and seemed to suggest that global dictatorships could have a role to play. In the politics of the event there was no space for social justice; the issue of consumption and the growth economy were raised but not dealt with by the panelists and the discourse narrowly focused on CO2 and energy.
The event, billed as “On the eve of Cancun: can we cut carbon in time?” illuminated yet again the narrow nature of the international state and corporate response to climate change.
On the eve of Cancun, not much has changed.
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hell on earth
18.11.2010 18:16
hell
Just a thought
20.11.2010 12:57
The best way to ensure that a meeting discusses what you want is to arrange your own meeting, not to intrude on someone elses meeting and expect them to discuss what you want to discuss.
Pete