Reasons for not going to Copenhagen
| This is an attempt to speak on behalf of people not going to Copenhagen for the December 2009 UN Climate Change Conference.
Signing this statement along with supporters of the ‘Enouranois’ website signifies agreement with it, at least in general terms. Members of the “Enouranois” group are not going to Copenhagen, because what will happen there is what happened at the demo you see in the photograph on the right. |
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the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/heimara2/petition.html
This
was an international Climate Change demonstration, two years ago: December 2007.
The photograph was taken in
Our
position was, and is, that there cannot be meaningful discussion of climate
change without simultaneous reference to the aerial spraying (with aluminium?
with barium? with sulphates?) being conducted globally and represented by
informal sources as an “answer” to the problem of climate change.
The
veil of silence that shrouds this spraying, evidently detrimental to both the
environment and human health, appears to be due not only to its illegality but
also to the impossibility of its being legalized, given the difficulties faced
by governments in persuading public opinion that deliberate pollution can be a
“solution” to any problem.
Because
governments cannot face their citizens with honesty and self-respect, they
resort to every type of concealment and distortion. Behind the scenes the
“sceptics”, the people who set the terms of the discussion in the first
place, continue to call the shots. Many times the same people who play the
sceptic on the reality and the seriousness of climate change also argue that if
there were a climate change problem, the best, and cheapest,
means of dealing with it, would be through geoengineering (i.e. spraying
with toxic aerosols.)
(See
Edward Tellers’s “Sunscreen for Planet Earth”
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3522851.html )
Unfortunately
the existing political system and the people who serve it are unable to
extricate us from this web of contradiction.
Even a politician with an otherwise good reputation on environmental
issues such as the EU’s Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is a hostage of
the overall situation.
The
solution is in the hands of citizens. We must insist on full transparency in
relation to the geoengineering programmes, including programmes of aerosol
spraying.
Moreover,
because such spraying also appears to be serving purportedly “military”
objectives, it is unacceptable that the subject continues to be off the radar
screen for the anti-war and peace movements. The honourable exception to this is
the Report A4-0005/99 to the European Parliament “on the Environment, Security
and Foreign Policy”, a product of the courage and persistence of the
distinguished peace activist Maj-Britt Theorin.