Tadzio Müller:
Last year Ban Ki Moon and Gordon Brown exclaimed that the climate conference in Copenhagen will be "our last chance". After the flop of the COP 15, the media lost all interest in the process itself and there´s almost nothing in the daily coverage on COP 16, the UN´s climate conference in Cancún, which will take place from the 29th November - 10th December 2010 . George Monbiot argues, that the reason behind is that "governments lose interest. They don't want to be associated with failure, they don't want to pour time and energy into a broken process." (the Guardian, 21st Sept.) In this sense, it would be naive to expect anything substantial from the conference itself.
So why put energy and effort in the protest? And for us: why build a gigantic inflatable silver hammner and send it to Mexico? One reason is, that summits are crystallization points for social movements. When the talks fail, the mass-demonstrations at least lend legitimacy for subsequent direct action.
So why put energy and effort in the protest? And for us: why build a gigantic inflatable silver hammner and send it to Mexico? One reason is, that summits are crystallization points for social movements. When the talks fail, the mass-demonstrations at least lend legitimacy for subsequent direct action.
See also the article of George Monbiot in the Guardian from 21th of september:
Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it's dead
