Comments on: Five demands for climate change justice

By: Sunce More

Sunce More — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:50:00 +0000

We all need fresh air and healthy food, it is much denial or ignorance when managing pollution industry for decades without development toward healthy.

By: Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:40:00 +0000

oh and there is a new network in the UK called “Rising Up” which is doing this – in case you are interested.

By: Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:39:00 +0000

As it happens I do PhD research into the processes that explain and create radical political mobilisation. And well I have to confess even experts are pretty unclear on the reasons. However there is strong evidence that how bad things get is not a good predictor of mobilisation. What seems to enable mobilisation is activist organisation which provides a pathway for people to gain meaning from revolt rather than submission. Therefore the biggest problem at present is that the whole anti climate change “industry” is based upon types of activity which are bound to fail – emailing and marches. They divert anger into ineffectual forms of opposition. What is needed then is a new generation of networks which firstly tell people the truth bluntly and clearly – we are heading for extinction is things don’t change very soon – and that this therefore justifies and necessitates mass direct action – specifically blocking roads, disrupting public events, painting on buildings, openly destroying property – followed by jail and hunger strikes. This is the standard model of every serious social movement in the West before the neo-liberal era – and whether you agree with it not – it worked. The whole NGO “engagement” model has coincided with a 60% increase in global CO2 emissions since 1990. So at the very least it seems a good idea to try something different!

By: Lisa Sturdee

Lisa Sturdee — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:32:00 +0000

I do find it difficult to understand why civil disobedience (proved to be successful by Gandhi, the Suffragettes, the ANC etc.) and general public anger hasn’t been more common. Although I don’t have ‘peer-reviewed’ evidence for it to hand I suspect an increasingly urban population with their attention captivated by screens and trained from birth to value material possessions and status are too detached from the physical reality of environmental destruction. Those who do have contact with the natural environment have seen with their own eyes a massive collapse in bio-diversity in the last 30 years. The acceleration of this within the last 5 years is also clear as a toxic combination of climate change, pollution, soil erosion etc speeds the process up.

By: Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:02:00 +0000

Again all this is castles in the air – there will no progress, as in every other existential political crisis, until there is serious social disruption – a truth the NGO sector and their legal friends have been avoiding for 30 years – during which time carbon emissions have risen by 60%. Total failure. Time for getting out of the office and into jail cells.

By: Sunce More

Sunce More — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:54:00 +0000

To avoid the; “high risk of being destroyed again in the future,” we need a comparison of different present models to create sustainable one, and reduce time relapse. The unified database will provide a reliable source of solution, supported by expertise and scientific accomplishments.