There are those who see the Cop 23 conference as progress, but there are also those who claim biased activity in favor of corporations and industries whose main concern is making profits and accumulating capital at the expense of populations suffering from climate change, warming, rising sea levels and climatic disasters.
Local organizations of farmers/farmers and herdsmen around the world, mainly in developing countries and islands, do not see the results of the conference as a "great success", in their opinion Cop23 has failed in its decisions/attempts to provide food security to rural people by developing sustainable agriculture that does not harm the natural environment, a failure that stems from a lack of understanding of the basic need of people and countries to control the self-production capacity - which will be durable and robust enough to overcome the climatic changes, which were mainly caused by the behavior of industrialized countries in the Western Seven, since corporate factories and huge industries continue to emit about 70% of pollutants and greenhouse gases.
The same bodies continue to push "solutions" to mitigate the climatic disasters, "solutions" that focus on increasing profits but create threats to nature, "solutions" that ignore the social and environmental problems they cause.
Millions of farmers, fishermen, natives on islands and beaches are losing the possibility of existence due to the rise of ocean levels and climatic disasters. The spokesmen for the sufferers claim that corporations accumulate capital by ignoring disasters and damage to the natural environment caused by their activities. The need for basic living conditions is not respected, for example the climatic disaster in Puerto Rico (Irma and Maria) revealed the nasty behavior of the US authorities who blocked any support and help that did not come from giant corporations.
In a conference parallel to Cop 23 held by representatives of countries whose residents suffer from the disasters, the representative of Puerto Rico (Jesús Vázquez Negrón) claimed that it is necessary to change the method in which the system operates. The speaker said that: "We are here to remind the world that change must be systematic, therefore a proposal for essential change is being presented by resident and native organizations (global grassroots movementmen).
The farmers' struggle is not only to achieve resistance to climate change, but also a global struggle against the spread of "agribusiness" that relies on free trade agreements. There is an urgent need to check and reduce the industrial production and export of meat from southern countries to European countries, a production and export that continues despite the knowledge of its "contribution" to climate change. This production and export is carried out by huge international corporations that support wrong "solutions" such as "blue carbon", "solutions" that rely on the program REDD "to reduce emissions due to deforestation" ( Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) and the development of "smart agriculture" adapted to the climate. These programs are positive and correct in their essence, but under the auspices of the corporations they constitute a smokescreen for destructive activity.
One of the topics that was not addressed at the Bonn conference is the "migration of peoples" caused by the disasters following climate change. Today there are more "climate migrants" than ever before, according to a spokesman for the "World Organization for Land and Water" (Convergence of Land and Water Struggles). "Climate change and the migration disaster are two sides of the same coin", since those who try to stop migration are the ones who caused it with wrong "solutions". They are the ones who robbed lands, caused harm to the climate and started wars.
After all this, there is also encouraging news, since youth movements around the world are participating in the discussion on the above topics. According to a young French farmer who is a member of the "French Farmers' Organization": "We present a better future and we will not give up, but will continue to protect the farmers of the entire world", "We will continue to fight for social change, we farmers around the world will reject the method of "industrial agriculture" which is a significant factor in the changes The climate", "we are the ones who are able to cool our globe and feed the world".
There were many conferences (COPs) and there will be more and it turns out that their influence on policy is minimal. The congregants declare about "sustainable development", "green agriculture" and much more, but while those who are heard are the same corporations that cause disasters, social movements are being organized that expect the governments and international organizations to bring real solutions to the discussion table!
To change the system, grassroots organizations and peasant movements must grow and create alliances that will oblige governments to understand the urgency of addressing the daily suffering of farmers. It must be understood that sovereignty over food production and environmental agriculture constitute the solution to the durability and recovery of the food supply system in the entire world.
And I will add as usual that: the time has come that instead of controlling the environment for the sake of the human population, there will be control of the human population for the sake of the environment.
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It's really nice that all NGOs of various kinds think that only they have been given the wisdom, that they are the best, along with the politicians who feed them and on the other hand get warm pats on the back. and stand as a wall against the evil corporations and industrialists who are destroying the world. Only when the organizations and politicians realize that they cannot promote anything without the industry and the business sector, change will begin.
The industrialists and heads of corporations are people like us, not plotters and enemies of the human race. Most of them try to combine the organization's purpose of providing a product or service, a financial profit that will allow the organization to continue to serve its goals for years to come, and reducing the damage to the environment for future generations is part of the adjustment for the years to come.
"Local agriculture" and the like sounds good. The problem is that it produces a much smaller amount of produce for a given area. Therefore, it requires the use of much larger areas to produce the same amounts of food (and the world's population continues to grow all the time and consume more and more food), and therefore for more serious damage to the environment.
It is very nice to think that you can sit in your zola on the beach. But someone also has to produce the machines that will maintain your internet connection. And that requires a sophisticated industry. And internet connection should be available to everyone and cheap, and moving requires an efficient industry. Or in the terms presented in the article: a huge industry.
Leder. Assaf Rosenthal - The time has come that instead of controlling the environment to waste its resources, there will be control over the human population for the sake of our continued existence in balance with the environment
On the margins of things, I feel the need to refer to news about research
which states that: "The sperm quality of the men in the Western countries is poor
to the point of endangering the extinction of the human race"
is that so ? "Extinction of the human race" because of poor sperm quality of Western men?
According to the studies and the publishers of the news, there are billions of men who are not from the West
that the quality of their sperm is normal and therefore they will continue to produce offspring,
Aren't they a gene bank of the human race?
Do many of them who do not know how to read the news not belong to the human race?
Did someone fall on their head (or ass)?
Is it the publisher of the news? Or the researchers?
Is this a stupid mistake in wording?
Who are those who flaunt their ignorance?