Chinese authorities, accordingt ot the BBC, blocked a bid by a Chinese company to by the GM brand “Hummer” and sell the big-polluting car in China. GREAT!
In Berlin, some young climate activists (joined by a lot more strange anarchists) started to do something against the cars. Burning. This is really illegal and I condem this. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Justice’
30 Jun
China forbids GM Hummer!
25 May
Fishing for arguments in Bremen
Last weekend I was attending the 32nd Protestant “Kirchentag” (Churchday) in Bremen. It was a four-day Congress all over the city with several hundret-thousand visitors from the entire country. One might have expected a lot of prayers and singing and even though this was a crucial part of the whole event, it was crowded with [...]
15 May
Discussing Greenhouse Development Rights – 17 questions
Some while ago I posted a summary of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDR) framework here in my blog and wrote also a GYG-discussion paper here on the GYG-website. The concept comes from several actors including the Heinrich Boell Foundation where I am not working.
We had an expert-talk at the Boell and I noted down some [...]
13 May
State sovereignty must go – climate justice must come
As the British newspaper Guardian reports, new institutions are necessary to combat climate change. YES! This was also picked up by the COP15-websit (here) but I doubt it will be carried into the minds of all the fearful politicians. The sovereignty of the states is one of the core good in the world.While progressive minds [...]
6 May
Amnesty International has one more donator
Some days ago I joined Amnesty International as a regular donator, here are my reasons:
- I invest most of my time in trying to influence Climate Policy and People to save the climate, I am active in peace policy and all this stuf – but I have done very little to give direct help to [...]
13 Apr
Basic Education for the critical climate activists
To do a little for the readers of this blog (quite a lot actually, thank you!). Here one of the founding roots of the movement against a profit-oriented Carbon Trading System.
Climate Justice Now!
The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading
As representatives of people’s movements and independent [...]
8 Apr
Tata Nano and what should I think about it?
In India, the new “Tata Nano” car was unveiled is going to give mobilization to possibly millions of people. The media of the Global North is crying “eco-disaster” (Spiegel) while people of the Global South quote numbers as “cars/person” to defend their “right” to a car.
I am not hundred percent sure what to think, but [...]
30 Mar
Climate Justice beyond Green Capitalism
Some time ago I posted 20 thesis agains green capitalism here. Now I want to give this space to the 6 anti-theses – for a more realistic approach. As with the 20 Theses, it is more a collection of 6 paragraphs than logical “Theses”. However, I made my comment behind every “these”.
Don’t throw out the [...]
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