D. 27.11.2010 fra Fra Jørgen Johansen, WRI
Til Alle organisationer og deres medlemmer:
SIGN-ON and
FACTSHEET on Militarism and Climate Change inden
8.dec. til klimatopmødet
Dear friends,
We need your organizations (in any country) to sign on by Dec 8 to this War/Climate
change statement, to be delivered to the UN climate talks, IPCC, the White
House, the media. http://www.climatesos.org/2010/11/resolution-war-climate/
(please send
organization – including country, contact name, title and email address
to rsmolker@riseup.net)
A handy factsheet is prepared to help you
educate anyone who needs convincing that there can be no solution to the
climate crisis without stopping the US-led wars and military aggression, and no
escaping from the prospect of widespread warfare and human misery without
stopping the climate catastrophe. It’s time to break the cycle and end
the death spiral!
http://www.climatesos.org/2010/11/factsheet-militarism-climate/
Please sign on to the statement, forward
both the statement and the factsheet as widely as possible (to anyone who is
concerned with planetary survival, social/economical/political/environmental justice,
etc.), make use of these materials in your outreach to the public, to
activists, and to the media, and finally, be sure to mark your calender for an exciting antiwar event the weekend
of April 9, 2011 (and get the word out on that, too). All this is
also mentioned in the above two links.
The sign-on statement is pasted below.
In solidarity.
Maggie Zhou, Ph.D.
Climate SOS
Resolution: (for pdf file, click here: http://www.climatesos.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Military_Climate_resolution-Nov23_2010.pdf
)
US Militarism: Elephant in the Living Room. (Accompanying fact sheet: http://tinyurl.com/26stkfv)
· The US Military and
their allies, through their imperial wars and military actions (overt and
covert) around the world, has inflicted massive suffering and civilian
casualties.
· The US Military is
the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions on the
planet, yet these emissions are exempted from reporting requirements.
· Access to more oil, the burning of which is fundamental cause of
climate change - is the primary underlying motive for current wars.
· Both warfare and climate
change are rendering large areas uninhabitable - displacing millions of people
as refugees, and yet the rights of immigrants are increasingly limited,
threatened and abused.
· Climate change is likely
to result in far more wars,
being a “threat multiplier” and now recognized as the greatest looming threat
to "security". Access to resources – including land, food,
water – is already becoming increasingly challenging, and scarcities will
likely trigger conflict and further displacement in the future.
· The US Military is
also the largest source of toxic chemical and radioactive poisoning of peoples
and environment around the globe, and plays a major role in promoting false
solutions that only worsen the problems (biofuels,
nuclear technologies, climate geoengineering etc)
· The US and global
economy is in shambles, funding for a "fair and just transition" – to
ensure that people are not negatively impacted by the necessary transitions, is
not forthcoming, “green” jobs remain scarce, millions lack access to basic
healthcare.
· The US has lead the efforts by developed countries in
stymieing progress among nations, consistently refusing to pay their
“ecological debt”, owed to non-industrialized countries and their peoples… All
while spending trillions on furthering wars in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere.
· Our global commons (air,
water, forests) is being bought and sold in carbon markets under the guise that
this is the ONLY feasible means of generating funds to take necessary actions
to prevent and adapt to impacts of climate change. The result is further
concentration of wealth and power, at the expense of the planet.
We will not accept the
death spiral of militarism, war and climate change. It is time to break the
cycle! In Cancun and beyond, we Demand:
1. An
end to oil and resource wars, and reinstatement of diplomacy and respect over
use of force in all foreign relations
2. Troops
brought home, military bases abroad closed down and cleaned up, those on US
soil dramatically reduced and cleaned up.
3. Redirection
of the vast majority of military funding to fund human services, ensure decent
quality of life, payment of ecological and climate debt, and compensation to
countries and peoples damaged by US militarism.
4. Dismantling
of the military-industrial complex. Corporations stripped of personhood. Clean
elections mandated.
5. IPCC
to create an urgent special report on military emissions, both direct and
indirect (e.g., ecosystem damage and desertification due to military
activities). No reporting exemptions by powerful countries.
6. Urgent
implementation of "real” as opposed to “false” solutions, to end the use
of fossil fuels, and restore and protect public and environmental health.
--
Jørgen Johansen
Skype: jj_ahimsa
Cellullar: +46 761481011
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Some of my
present engagements:
Resistance
Studies Magazine, http://rsmag.org/
The
Transnational Foundation, www.transnational.org
Syracuse
University, Strasbourg, France, http://suabroad.syr.edu/programs/location/strasbourg/
Transcend
Peace University, Global, http://tpu.transcend.org/
European
Peace University, Austria, www.epu.ac.at
World Peace
Academy, Switzerland www.world-peace-academy.ch/
Centre for
Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, UK, www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy
Networkers SouthNorth, http://www.networkers.org/
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Videresendt med opfordring til alle partier foreninger og organisationer om at skrive under da der hidtil har været en horribel mangel på vilje til at se sammenhængen mellem militarisme og klimaforværring - alene af den grund bør alle i Danmark skrive under for at sætte sammenhængen på alle de bekymredes klimapolitiske dagsorden
- og vi har jo valgt vores politiske repræsentanter for at de skal turde gå foran og vise vejen til at komme ud af militarismens, krigens og klimaforværringens dødsspiral
Altså
bed dit parti og dine foreninger/organisationer om at skrive under som
organisation på
http://www.climatesos.org/2010/11/resolution-war-climate/
- og det haster da der skal underskrives
inden 8. december 2010
- og
videresend gerne dette til andre medlemmer af dine organisationer
Arne Hansen
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