Scientists are virtually unanimous We Dare Not Wait! catastrophic and irreparable climate that we must act quickly to radically Often the left is divided over strategy. Some changes? reduce the emission of gases, especially argue that since capitalism is the primary source Fraudulent and/or ineffective carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. of the crisis, resolving it requires socialism. Others argue that the priority is building the proposals being floated in The alternative is escalating average global broadest support for immediate action, and tend Congress won’t work! temperatures that will result in massive loss to downplay the relationship between the of habitat for thousands of plant and animal climate crisis and capitalism. We in the CCDS Fraud: Nuclear power as an alternative to species, melting of polar ice caps and believe this is a false dichotomy – we cannot fossil fuels is a fraud - The unsolvable problem mountain glaciers, rising sea levels and wait for socialism to replace capitalism, but of disposing of radioactive and poisonous flooding of the most populous regions on the waging the fight for national climate legislation wastes, and the terrible danger of another planet. Indeed, there is evidence that today that will rapidly reduce carbon emissions Chernobyl-type accident, should end any climatic feedbacks, such as melting sea ice, will create the economic and political base for a speculation on nuclear power as an answer. The huge investments needed to build nuclear would result in runaway escalation of global new 21st Century, ecologically sustainable socialism - “ecosocialism.” power plants should be used instead to build temperatures resulting in devastation of our wind, solar and other sustainable power existing biodiversity. The very survival of We must look at the long term. facilities which go online much more quickly billions of humans and much of life on this We agree with the sentiments expressed in the and create more jobs. planet will be threatened as struggles Cochabamba declaration – capitalism is not Fraud: Clean Coal and Fracked Gas. escalate over water and land resources. compatible with our continued survival on this planet. Many corporations, especially fossil fuel Technology for the capture and sequestration of oil companies, have by their very nature an CO2 emitted when burning coal is so-called The People's Agreement of Cochabamba, “clean coal”. The only clean coal is coal that Bolivia adopted by more than 10,000 interest in continuing current patterns of resource waste. Some even persistently deny stays in the Earth unmined. Fracked gas people, from 135 countries of the there is a problem. They are powerful and have extraction has coal-level carbon emissions, developing world, meeting April 20-22, huge bankrolls with which to influence and besides its negative health impacts. 2010, declared: pressure law makers and government leaders at Fraud: Carbon offsets are also a fraud. every level. They continue to make billions of Corporate interests propose that they continue “Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and dollars, even as they degrade and destroy our to spew pollution through burning fossil fuels the future of humanity is in danger… environment. These practices may cause the in exchange for not destroying existing carbon extinction of much of life on earth, including sinks, such as forests. This just leads to the The capitalist system has imposed on us a corporate supporters. status quo when what is needed is a reduction logic of competition, progress and limitless Faced with this crisis, what is to be done? in atmospheric carbon. In any case they are growth. This regime of production and unenforceable. consumption seeks profit without limits, There are many solutions being offered; some separating human beings from nature and are fraudulent, some are ineffective; some can Ineffective: Cap and trade. This was the work. The thing that distinguishes those that can method of the Kyoto Accord – in those imposing a logic of domination upon nature, work from those that won’t is the yes or no countries where it was adopted it proved transforming everything into commodities: answer to a simple question: will they impossible to monitor or enforce. In addition, water, earth, the human genome, ancestral result in rapid stabilization and then some corporate interests see cap and trade as an cultures, biodiversity, justice, ethics, the reduction of the greenhouse gases in the opportunity to make even more billions by rights of peoples, and life itself. “ Earth’s atmosphere in time to prevent selling and speculating on carbon emission permits.  For more information and details: ….Things That Will Work CCDS: www.CC-DS Cochabamba: pwccc.wordpress.com Things That Will Work 350.org: www.350.org A Carbon Tax is the only real, effective Green Jobs: www.greenjobsconference.org method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions Ecosocialism: www.cnsjournal.org Prevent in our current global market economy. www.redandgreen.org/Climate_Change However, such a regressive tax must be coupled with rebates to low income and Members of the CCDS are working in working class people. atastrophic many arenas to take up these and other C Tax credits for retrofitting existing challenges. 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