Ian Angus on Climate Change and The Summit Smokescreen Interviewed by Phil Gasper

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Dandelion Salad

with Ian Angus
interviewed by Phil Gasper
socialistworker.org
December 3, 2015

President Barack Obama joined world leaders at the UN climate summit–officially called the 21st Congress of the Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP 21–in Paris this week, and promised to work for an “ambitious” agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But climate justice activists who are trying to put forward an alternative vision–in spite of a ban on protests by the French government after the November 13 terror attacks–say that much more is needed than the leaders of the world’s most powerful governments are willing to consider.

Naomi Klein: This Is Violence. Inaction In The Face Of Such An Existential Threat (#COP21)

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Dandelion Salad

Updated: Dec. 7, 2015

Democracy Now! on Nov 30, 2015

Ahead of the 21st UN climate change conference in Paris, more than 170 nations submitted plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say the proposed targets end up falling far short of what is needed to mitigate against drastic heating of the planet, and that the agreements during the negotiations are not likely to be binding. We discuss what’s at stake in Paris and how activists are responding with bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate.