<div>Hey list,</div><div><br></div><div>I've put together a draft of a blog post which could go up tomorrow. I think it would be good to get some up-to-date info on the world of climate politics out there so that we're not all swamped by thoughts about logistics and police.</div>
<div>If people are generally okay with this, then I'm happy to add some things in tomorrow as well to keep it fresh - the links are all to recent news stories.</div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------</div>
'Twas the night before the swoop...<br><br>All seems up in the air while the climate camp prepares to swoop, with the economy is being predicted to swing <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article6807564.ece" target="_blank">one way</a>, and then the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6080523/Nouriel-Roubini-warns-threat-of-double-dip-recession-is-rising.html" target="_blank">other</a>. But when will we stop listening to the results of a survery of 1000 accountants, and instead listen to hundreds of millions of ordinary people around the world, whose livelihoods & communities are being threatened by our fuel-guzzling nations?<div>
<br><div><div><div>As we lead up to the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen this December, African state leaders are making demands for <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8217449.stm" target="_blank">financial compensation</a> of the damage done to the global South by the industry-heavy global North. But while asking for 40% emissions cuts, there's little in the way of proposing how this can be done.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Business opportunities and bankers' initiatives as a method of 'going green' are given the thumbs up by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6061978/Tony-Blair-Copenhagen-climate-summit-must-not-be-about-percentages.html" target="_blank">war criminals</a>, while the UN's own Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the world's largest companies are <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/biggest-global-companies-39-yrs-behind-ipcc-recommendations/71560/on" target="_blank">39 years behind</a> in achieving the levels of green house gas reductions in order to avoid the climate tipping point of 2șC. No wonder - even carbon trading is caught up in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE57J3BC20090820" target="_blank">back-room deals and corruption</a> - as if it weren't enough of a crazy and unjust idea already!</div>
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<div><br><div>To do this we need to take radical action. The <a href="http://savevestas.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/camp-for-climate-action-this-week-why-working-class-people-should-get-involved/" target="_blank">Isle of Wight workers</a> show how it's possible for even the most unlikely of places to be the ground for grass-roots politics. The effects of climate change are being felt by people around the world everyday, and it's up to us to do something.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So come to the camp to build another world. We're all geared up to <a href="http://libcom.org/library/participatory-society-or-libertarian-communism" target="_blank">discuss alternatives</a>, how to take action against <a href="http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1920" target="_blank">climate criminals</a>, and to create a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40295422@N06/" target="_blank">vision of a sustainable world.</a> Now is the time for action!</div>
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