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copenhagen fails

Hugo Chávez sums it up the best, condemning the “pitiful” sums of money being offered to poor countries to adapt to climate change.

$10bn a year is a joke. The military expenditure of the US is $700bn per year. If the climate were a bank it would have been saved already.

But this isn’t Babylon 5. Copenhagen was never our last or best hope. Politicians alone, and certainly not corporations, a highly flawed institutional form if there ever was one, can’t deliver the change we need.

The long term structural changes to our economies and societies will require a large, powerful, global people’s movement that wields an enormous amount of political power, to build the change from below and force political elites to act in the common interest. Building that movement has only just begun.