[lbo-talk] Doomed

[Patrick Bond]

Haven't seen ecoequity site yet, but there is a brand new 'Campaign Against
Climate Aggression' - based on campaigning by dozens of excellent Third
World and northern ecojustice activist groups - which in Durban, South
Africa we began to establish this week. One of the main concerns is the
false market 'solution' to the market problem of C02 emissions: carbon
trading. 'Phanzi carbon trading, phanzi,' (away!), was the snappy slogan of
a leading Soweto activist, to a public workshop of 150 people Wednesday
night. Stay tuned...

Ciao,
Patrick
(new gig: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org>
> Various folks, left or not (some merely technologically-minded), have
> offered lots of alternatives which meet human needs. Trouble is, this
> is not an issue which can be reduced to simple slogans, which is what
> politics excels in. For example, "consume less" or "switch to
> alternative technologies" are snappy political slogans, but the people
> who think most deeply about the issue (such as the EcoEquity.org site
> Doug has referred to) have to come up with somewhat more complex
> positions. But who has the patience and the background to understand
> what they are talking about?