[Cc-webedit] [Fwd: Why we are resisting the banks and the fossil fuel industry.]

[website at climatecamp.org.uk]

This would be a good replacement text for the Why RBS page with a link to
this http://mail.climatecamp.org.uk/src/webmail.php If no objections I'll
do it tomorrow morning.

In peace Neil


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Subject: Why we are resisting the banks and the fossil fuel industry.
From:    "Garry Glass" <garry.glass at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, July 21, 2010 2:45 pm
To:      website at climatecamp.org.uk
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It would be great if we could put this "reasons why" text up on the website,
I cannae do it. I will forward you the Climate justice in Scotland text
which would also be good to get up in display and pdf forms.

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*Why we are resisting the banks and the fossil fuel industry.*

The only way to prevent catastrophic climatic change is to stop burning
fossil fuels by leaving them in the ground and switching to the
alternatives. The current growth-orientated economic system causes our
society to be addicted to burning fossil fuels. In order for our species
to
survive we need to move beyond capitalism by radically transforming human
social relations.

World leaders, Politicians and the Capitalists they serve are failing to
prevent the destruction of our planet because they have a vested interest
in
maintaining profits through business-as-usual. The false solutions they
offer (such as bio-fuels, carbon trading, carbon capture and storage,
nuclear etc) serve only to “green” capitalism in the search for more
growth.

Banks and finance institutions are essential to maintaining the social
control of capitalism for the benefit of the ruling class. British banks
such as Barclays, Lloyds TSB and RBS are also major investors in companies
that extract and burn conventional and unconventional fossil fuels. While
the economy is in crisis after the bailouts and austerity measures begin
to
bite we must ask: Why is it that elites are benefiting from the profits of
destructive investments which are killing the planet all loaned with money
they stole from the public in the first place?

This disastrous investment must stop because fuels such as coal and the tar
sands will if fully exploited certainly lead to global climate
catastrophe.
 The building of new coal power stations and the expansion of other
polluting industries must also be stopped and existing plants
decommissioned.

The exploitation of Coal, Tar sands, Oil and Gas affects the health and
environments of communities the world over, often causing militarization
and
conflict. Many are resisting this locally and finding solidarity globally,
the climate justice movement works in solidarity with these struggles
against these corporations for direct community and worker control.

Any transition from this unsustainable system requires the building of
energy autonomy, food security and community resilience in order to limit
the affect of shocks from the current; energy, climate, economic, food,
water and bio-crises. Only a grassroots movement for climate justice and
real democratic control can ensure that the earth’s current inhabitants,
as
well as the future generations, are able to limit the damage already being
done so as to make it through the 21st century. Resisting the banks and
fossil fuel companies they fund is an important part of making these
alternative futures possible.

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