<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Why we are resisting the banks and the fossil fuel industry.</font></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Banks and finance institutions are essential to maintaining the social control of capitalism for the benefit of the ruling class.</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">British banks such as Barclays, Lloyds TSB and RBS are also major investors in companies that extract and burn conventional and unconventional fossil fuels. </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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?</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This disastrous investment must stop because fuels such as coal and the tar sands will if fully exploited certainly lead to global climate catastrophe.</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> T</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">he building of new coal power stations and the expansion of other polluting industries must also be stopped and existing plants decommissioned.</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></span><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21pt; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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 21</font><sup><span style="font-size: small; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">st</font></span></sup><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> century. Resisting the banks and fossil fuel companies they fund is an important part of making these alternative futures possible.</font></span></p>
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