Posted on 12/10/2010 1:25:57 PM PST by Libloather
Bolivia blames capitalism
Mexico: Bolivian President Evo Morales said capitalism was responsible for climate change in his speech at the Climate Change Summit Thursday and he insisted on the need for the developed countries to make new commitments to reduce their greenhouse effect gas emissions.
“We are sometimes debating only the effects of global warming, and not the causes, and we should be responsible and debate those causes,” said the Bolivian President in the high level segment of the 16th Climatic Change Summit in Cancun.
Morales recalled the responsibility of the Governments so that key decisions are adopted to face global warming.
“Our responsibility, if we want to give peoples of the world a hope, is to cool the planet, to lower the temperature, but each one of us, especially the Presidents, heads of delegations, governments, put yourself in the place of millions and millions of families that are victims of global warming,” he said.
“Powers of the world must pay the ecological debt, but above the ecological debt, it is more important to change the causes of global warming,” he stressed.
Morales said that if the Protocol of Kyoto is sent to a garbage dump, “we will be responsible for a lot of serious mistakes, and therefore of genocides, because we are taking actions that could harm the entire human race.”
The document, approved in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 1997 and not ratified by the United States, includes and approves the objective of reducing greemnhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent compared to the levels of 1990.
He recalled some agreements of the climate conference of last April in Cochabamba, among them the proposal of creating a tribunal of climatic justice to sanction the nations of the world, transnationals or private individuals or institutions that damage the environment, as well as the organization of a world referendum in 2011 to change the capitalist model of over consumption and over production.
He also recalled that, under the sponsorship of the United Nations, the declarations of human rights and of indigenous communities were fostered, but the international organization has still to approve the rights of Mother Earth.
Without the free market “capitalism” everyone would still be pulling carts with donkeys.
it is more important to change the causes of global warmingOk... let's change it to... people who pick their nose in public cause global warming.
It's as good a cause as anything else.
(But I'm not a fanatic. I'm open to other suggestions.)
Heave Ho Morales is just plain nuts exactly like his best bud, Hugo.
Without the free market “capitalism” everyone would still be pulling carts with donkeys.Like in Bolivia?
They have some improvements over 19th century peasants. And what little they do have, they owe to free market “capitalism”
Man’s contribution to the greenhouse effect is 0.28%.
So, I’d say it’s that “Mother Nature” that needs looked into for causing the other 99.72% of global warming.
Have you been to the Museum of Socialist Innovations?
I was going to go but I can’t seem to find out where it is.
Until the Spaniards, who Evo hates so much, arrived, Bolivians didn’t even have donkeys. All they had were llamas, a much less efficient pack anima. Without capitalism, he would have had to ride his llama from La Paz to Cancun overland.
Socialists, historically, have come up with some “innovative” ways of killing millions of people.
I just don`t Bolivia it!
It’s right next to the “RINO Institute of Leadership”
It’s two doors down from the Muslim Sports Museum and across the street from the German Peace Exposition.
It’s right next to the “RINO Institute of Leadership”
LOL!
Most of these people in South America and Mexico, etc, want to see America turned into a third world flop house....
I must say, they're doing a great job along with help from our own government.
“the Spaniards, who Evo hates so much”
We all notice that south of the Mexican border there are still many really european Spanish people, who are more spanish than the people in Spain today (post the moorish invasions). What are the issues about that? Is evo hating on them, racially? I never hear people talk about these interesting issues in south & central America.
“Bolivian President Evo Morales said capitalism was responsible for climate change”
If capitalism was so bad, they wouldn’t have to invent reasons to hate it.
Their bloated blood sucking, lazy parasites.
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