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

[Jon Leighton]

Have appended to the Why RBS page and changed the title. It reads a bit
weirdly but it's the best I can do for now.

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 22:39 +0100, Jon Leighton wrote:
> 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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