Toban Black - Another COP-out: Grassroots, community solutions still are needed

18.2.11

Toban Black - Blog

Shannon Biggs (on a Global Exchange blog) -
“Getting the Message from the UNFCCC: ‘Just Go Home.’ . . . and ORGANIZE!”
(The Cochabamba agreement isn’t exactly perfect, but it is the best that we’ve got.)

Cam Fenton (on the Media Co-op) -
“Frontline Communities and Climate Justice Organizers Shrug Shoulders and Keep Working While Piece of Paper Lauded as ‘Better Than Nothing’“: “‘Seriously? Again?’ thought by activists around the globe”
(No doubt a lot of those people will be thinking along these lines, but there are bound to be front-line community members who don’t see things this way, and there obviously are people who get caught up in petty and ineffective reformism even as they organize in the name of “climate justice.”)

The Indigenous Environmental Network -
“Cancun Betrayal, UNFCCC Unmasked as WTO of the Sky“: “Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis Will Come From Grassroots Movements”
(To the extent that the UNFCCC framework is being denounced there, I agree. And, at future UN COP Summits, it will make sense for NGO representatives and regional activists to be there, even as they stress that the UN climate Summit framework has proven to be unsalvageable.)