[Cc-webedit] blog post

[Jonathan Leighton]

I've put this up now

2009/8/25 Richard Braude <richard.braude at googlemail.com>:
> Yo
> so Danny says yes, Natalie liked it yesterday - apart from that, no
> comments.
> also, no other proposals for today's blog post.
> so I think it should go up - and if there are any objections, we can take it
> down.
> r.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Braude <richard.braude at googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:34 AM
> Subject: blog post
> To: Jonathan Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com>, media list
> <mediateam at lists.riseup.net>
>
>
> Hey list,
> Here's the blog post. I have to run away from the computer now, so I hope
> that it's okay. If there are some tweaks, edit it them in and then send them
> to Jon please!
> cheers,
> r.
> _______________________________
> The night before swooping
>
> Timothy Hughes
>
> 'Twas the night before swooping, on the eve of events
>
> All the campers was stirring, and packing their tents...
>
> What I'm bringing:
>
> tent
>
> wind-up torch
>
> sleeping bag
>
> vegan snacks (don't worry, a week's worth of food will be provided!)
>
> London A to Z
>
> sense of solidarity
>
> wellies
>
> Baggage we don't need:
>
> carbon trading
>
> war criminals telling us what to do
>
> global North bigotry
>
> Vestas bosses
>
> While we sort out our stuff and hang on our phones for last minute updates,
> this might be a good moment to take our collective breath and remember why
> we're doing all of this.
>
> Right now the world seems even more chaotic than my half-packed rucksack,
> what with the economy being predicted to swing first one way, and then
> the other and extreme weather patterns threading their way across
> Europe. But we need to stop listening to the oscillating opinions of the
> 'business community', and instead lend an ear to the voices of hundreds of
> millions of ordinary people around the world, whose livelihoods &
> communities are being threatened by our fuel-guzzling nations. Yesterday,
> representatives from African nations made demands for financial
> compensation for the damage done to their land by the industry-heavy global
> North.
>
> So let's just look at some of the facts about how our 'leaders' are
> supposedly tackling the climate crisis right now:
>
> In the run up to the United Nations conference on climate change in
> Copenhagen this December (the infamous COP15),  there are hopes for promises
> of emissions cuts of as much as 80% by 2050. But the market systems
> concocted to achieve this are collapsing like a tent without tent-pegs.
>
> Business opportunities and bankers' initiatives, seen as a method of 'going
> green', are being given the thumbs up by war criminals, but the
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world's largest
> companies are 39 years behind in achieving the necessary emission
> reductions. No wonder: even carbon trading is being caught up in back-room
> deals and corruption - as if it weren't enough of a crazy and unjust idea
> already!
>
> To make radical reductions in carbon emissions, we need to take radical
> action. The Isle of Wight workers show how communities  in the UK can fight
> for a just transition to clean energy, that the effects of climate change
> are being felt by people around the world everyday, and that it's up to all
> of us to do something about it. So make sure you stuff a feeling that the
> world can change and a sense of solidarity into your rucksack as well.
>
> We're going to try and build another world. We're geared up to discuss
> alternatives, to resist climate criminals, and to create a vision of a
> sustainable world. We're camping for Climate Action, one tent at a time.
>