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Here's a load of opinions
about what's happening to the climate and what's
not.
Sophie from Rising Tide Australia speaks to a rally vs. the G20, Melbourne, 18.11.06
Robert Newman's speech at Stop Climate Chaos rally, Trafalgar Square, 4.11.06
'There is no planet B, so we need an economic plan B. We need to develop new economic systems because there is only one eco-system and it cannot survive the present free market economy.'
Getting in the Way
'Direct-action protesters in the UK are focusing on climate change', Mike Wendling, Grist Magazine, November 2006
'Market solutions' won't stop climate catastrophe
Zoe Kenny & Rohan Pearce,
4 November 2006
Stepping away from the climatical cliff-edge
London Rising Tide's Harry Helios wrote this piece for Peace News in November 2006
'Why I Helped Occupy the Entrance to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration'
Mike Tidwell
The
Pacific Island States Demand Action
A moving statement by the President of the Federated
States of Micronesia who calls climate change
a "doomsday threat of utmost urgency" and demands
immediate action to prevent the "slow death" of
his country.
Why can't we give up fossil fuels? - Ask a smoker!
We're addicted to fossil fuels and our feeble
attempts to give up are disturbingly similar to
those half hearted attempts nicotine addicts make
to give up smoking. This humourous article explores
all the similarities with reference to the Kyoto
Protocol.
Why
the Kyoto Protocol is pants
By George Marshall, 27 July 2001: A very snappy
bit of rant with few long words.
Kyoto
could make things worse
By Mark Lynas, The Guardian, 27 July 2001: Significantly
different from George Marshall's article above.
The
inclusion of sinks has sunk the Kyoto Protocol
Carbon sinks get dissed by the World Rainforest
Movement, Indigenous Peoples and a whole load
of others.
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