From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

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via CommonDreams:



Published on Sunday, July 12, 2009 by The Huffington Post

From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

by Sanjay Khanna


G-8 leaders agreed yesterday to the "'aspirational' goal of preventing global temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit," according to the New York Times.

Which reinforces the fact that we persist in speaking about climate change as if it were just a technical problem related to CO2 emissions and temperature rises.

Not only is that dry, it's true only to a point.

The salient (and problematic) underlying political reality is that climate change is the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

Over a period of centuries, these often-cruel processes, which involved systematic violations of human rights, absorbed all of the world's economies into the Western economic model of globalization, instilling and fueling a market-driven psychology of fear and greed among investors and citizens in nearly every geographic region of the planet.

Globalization, touted as a model of economic inclusiveness, has paradoxically accelerated the loss of cultural identity and linguistic diversity, sped the pace of environmental degradation, and increased the gap between rich and poor. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/12-2

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1. The knowledge

that our resource use will give us an advantage by damaging rival nations is a powerful incentive to do nothing.

Mutually assured destruction 2.0.