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

[Richard Braude]

pause! I don't have time right now, but I think this text needs a little
work.

r.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, <website at climatecamp.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> *
> *
>
> *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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