(en) France, Alternative Libertaire Tract AL - Cop 21:
anti-greenwashing (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
With the approach of the 21st Summit of Heads of State dedicated to global warming (Cop
21) in Paris in December, governments multiply discourse to believe that they are
determined to act. But between the defense of the planet and that of the economic system,
the choice is quickly made. No Head of State will do what it is for this summit produces
concrete commitments. ---- The great farce of climate summit ---- Over the Cop, promises
accumulate, cancel without being realized. Commitments are made, but "not binding", and
states continue to subsidize polluters, whether private or national energy multinational
empires. ---- Meanwhile, the only "solutions" proposed are those that are profitable to
capitalism: implementation shy taxes (but which are still free agriculture or aviation),
sale of CO2 emission permits that encourage speculation, land grabbing, and sometimes not
even used to finance the energy transition.
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Grandiose speeches poorly mask the sad reality: in France, a decrease of EUR 100 million
is in the budget of the Ministry of Ecology, and 400 jobs will be cut there. Also falling
steadily since 2012: official development assistance (ODA), which must yet be used to
encourage the energy transition in developing countries.
Contradiction, or true anti-ecological conviction? Royal and Macron granted three new
licenses to explore for oil and gas to companies facing the challenge to the moratorium on
shale gas.
And how can one believe a government that promises to move to the ecology but at the same
time, boost the construction of unnecessary and devastating Airport Notre Dame des Landes
or invoking order and national defense to control borders during the month preceding the
Cop and prevent activists and environmental activists to join the top-cons?
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