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

[Jon Leighton]

Hey Richard,

I spoke to Garry yesterday and apparently this text has already been
through an editing process at the gathering. So I suggest we should get
it up in some form ASAP.

We may want to unify it with the "Why RBS?" text at some point, but if
this can't happen soon then I think it should just go up as is for now.

Jon

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:29 +0100, Richard Braude wrote:
> 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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