Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.
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KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Minute: World Social Forum in Tunisia closes with declaration denouncing capitalism, patriarchy, and the “green economy”
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KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: On the ground at the World Social Forum in Tunisia with Cindy Wiesner
Cindy Wiesner, Director of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, joins us from the World Social Forum in Tunisia, happening from March 26-30th.
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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Pablo Salon: How to overcome the climate crisis?
By Pablo Salon, March 15, 2013. Source: Climate Space 2013
There is no single answer, no single campaign nor single approach.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids catastrophe, we need to:
- Leave more than two-thirds of the fossil fuel reserves under the soil;
- Stop the exploitation of tar sands, shale gas and coal;
- Support small, local, peasant and indigenous community farming while we dismantle big agribusiness that deforests and heats the planet;
- Promote local production and consumption of products, reducing the free trade of goods that send millions of tons of CO2 while they travel around the world;
- Stop extractive industries from further destroying nature and contaminating our atmosphere and our land;
- Increase significantly public transport to reduce the unsustainable “car way of life”;
- Reduce the emissions of warfare by promoting genuine peace and dismantling the military and war industry and infrastructure.
In other words we need to come out of the endless growth paradigm that is the basis of the capitalist system, and seek for a new kind of society that is grounded on care for each other and nature. A society that seeks happiness for all and not profit for a few. A society based on a different concept of prosperity and well-being. A bio-society for life that includes humans and nature.
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