a climate of false solutions
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A CLIMATE OF FALSE
SOLUTIONS
A CLIMATE OF FALSE
SOLUTIONS
Nnimmo BasseySeeding Climate
Justice@ Maputo
April 2015
Re-Source Storehouse
EXTRACTIVISM=
AMPUTATION[Africa
cannot dig herself of he hole]
EXTRACTIVISM=
AMPUTATION[Africa
cannot dig herself of he hole]Climate Finance:
How about the Ecological Debt?How much spent on wars?How many bullets per capita?
Seeds sown… grow
Two-thirds of all proven fossil fuel reserves will have to be left unburned if global warming will be held to two degrees Celsius, according to the International Energy Agency.
Real Solutions• 2 Degrees Global temperature rise
• => 3 Degrees for Africa
Climate Crises Deepen
•Droughts/crop failures•Damaged infrastructure•Coastal erosion•Water Stress•Rain fed agriculture reduced by 50% in some countries by 2020
Already: 2012 Floods•Niger: 530,000 displaced b/w July & Sept•Nigeria: 6 million displaced. Over 300 killed•Thousands displaced in Mali, Kenya, Uganda, Chad, SA, Mozambique, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mauritania and others
Impacts• Africa is becoming the most exposed region in the world to the impacts of climate change.
• 5-8% increase in Arid and semi-arid land
• Agriculture yields will suffer from crop failures; and diseases will spread to new altitudes.
• By 2030 it is expected that 90 million more people in Africa will be exposed to malaria, already the biggest killer in Sub-Saharan Africa
• By 2020 up to 75-250m people will face water stress
DATE: December 12, 1991TO: DistributionFR: Lawrence H. Summers
... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted. (emphasis added)
(World Bank chief economist Larry Summers, later US Treasury Secretary and Obama’s economic manager – full memo: www.whirledbank.org)
• Carbon Colonisation
• Carbon slavery• Climate Smart Agric
• Agro-fuels• Synthetic Biology Geoengineering
• REDD
The Climate HOAX
UNEP defines Green Economy
Greening the economy refers to the process of reconfiguring businesses and
infrastructure to deliver better returns on natural, human and economic capital investments, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
extracting and using less natural resources, creating less waste and
reducing social disparities.
GREEN a COLOUR?
Paradigm shift or language shift?
BROWN looking GREEN
GREED is not green
Market environmentalism
The Green Economy of Rio+20: “greening the existing economy.”
False solutionsCarbon Markets
REDD : Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Geo-engineering: A Special threat
• Geoengineering is the intentional large-scale technological manipulation of earth systems (including the stratosphere or ocean or in the ground) in an attempt to delay or reduce climate change.
•Stratospheric interventions to reduce sunlight and lower temperatures •Will negatively impact Africa with critical social and agricultural consequences •Some scenarios could see dramatic rainfall in the Sahel region and elsewhere
Geo-engineering: Shifting the rains
WE NEED the EARTHWE NEED the EARTHFor our climatic fraudFor our climatic fraud
Re-examine our Narratives
• “It is not the objective circumstances themselves that determine how people behave, but the manner of their interpretation.”– Harald Welzer (Climate Wats – Why people will be killed in the 21st Century)
Conclusion?• Leave the Fossils UNDERGROUND• Work for rapid transition to clean energy production
• Fight Ecocide and other crimes• The COP will never COPE• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery… fossilise the fossils
• Stand against the military & war machinery
• Solidarity and loud resistance
