A CLIMATE OF FALSE SOLUTIONS
Nnimmo Bassey Seeding Climate Justice @ Maputo April 2015
Re-Source Storehouse
Seeds sown‌ grow
EXTRACTIVISM = AMPUTATION
[Africa cannot dig herself of Climate Finance: he hole] How about the Ecological Debt? How much spent on wars? How many bullets per capita?
• 2 Degrees Global temperature rise • => 3 Degrees Two-thirds of all for Africa 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
•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,
Climate Crises Deepen
• 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
Impacts
DATE: December 12, 1991 TO: Distribution FR: 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 underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly UNDERpolluted. (emphasis added)
The Climate HOAX • Carbon Colonisation • Carbon slavery • Climate Smart Agric • Agro-fuels • Synthetic Biology Geoengineering • REDD
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 solutions Carbon Markets
REDD :
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Geo-engineering: A Special threat
Geo-engineering: Shifting the rains •
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
WE NEED the EARTH For 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
Liberate the PLANET NOW!
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