My Article in NACLA: Latin America Finds a Voice on Climate Change – With What Impact?
21 July 2010
For those of you interested in the ongoing debate over climate change leading up to the next UN summit in Cancun in December, here is a link to my article published in the current issue of NACLA.
Latin America Finds a Voice on Climate Change – With What Impact?
The people of the planet, in fits and starts, are debating how to address a crisis that will come to affect us all—climate change. So far that debate has been dominated by wealthy countries and global corporations that oppose action that might impinge on their economic well-being. As a result, governments dance together from one global summit to another, never able to agree on any response with real teeth.
In April, a new voice rose on the climate crisis in the form of the People’s Summit convened in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by the country’s president, Evo Morales. At the conclusion of December’s United Nations–hosted summit in Copenhagen, Morales denounced the meeting for marginalizing the world’s most impoverished people and leaving countries like his dangerously exposed to the most dire effects of climate change. In Cochabamba, the people and movements that have been excluded from the global climate debate came together 30,000 strong—a gathering that included everyone from Bolivian campesinos to environmental activists from the U.K.
But the question remains how these demands will provoke any real change of course from the wealthy countries of the North. Read the full article here.
7 responses to My Article in NACLA: Latin America Finds a Voice on Climate Change – With What Impact?
Pls make up your mind! When it’s too hot you blame glbal warming. Bolivians are freezing their arses now and Evo blames glbal warming. Didn’t win the World Cup? Blame global warming.
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Jim; The only reason your buddy Evo fights capitalism is because he is following the footsteps of Castro and Chavez… who blame the capitalist Yankees for all the evils in the region and the world…(unfortunatley these two idiots are usually correct).
Evo with his limited mind wants to be in power in Bolivia for the next 50 years just like Castro…and can care less about global warming or cooling…
I’d say the Red Sox are to blame for all the evils in the region and the world.
Climate change is a big issue to discuss..its not just all over one are but all over the globe..
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A lot of interesting posts here, to be sure. But why do you guys never post about the grass roots activities YOU organize in Bolivia? I’ve been reading for years now, and don’t remember a single post highlighting what it is you actually DO to help promote grass roots level democracy in Bolivia (which I believe is your mission statement). In-depth, high-quality investigative journalism from Bolivia for an American readership is important, of course. But that’s a different mission than one meant to promote democracy in Bolivia.
Climate change is a problem facing the entire world, not just the North.
Thornton Jacobs
Whaddya mean?