[van-announce] Public Forum: Masters of Greenwashing: Campbell's Liberals and the Environment

[Ian Beeching]

www.VancouverSocialist.com
   
  You're invited to a public forum...
   
   
  Masters of Greenwashing:  Campbell's Liberals and the Environment   
  Saturday, April 26, 4p.m.
  SFU Downtown Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St.
   
  Speakers   
  Michael Wolfe: Environmentalist, Mayoral candidate in Richmond in 2005, past candidate for the Green Party f BC
   
  Roger Annis: Author of recent article “Masters of Greenwash: B.C.’s Carbon Tax Is No Answer to Climate Change”
  

  Hype   
  Gordon Campbell's provincial government has undergone a conversation to environmentalism.
  -First carbon tax in North America
  -Transit improvements
   
  Reality   
  Campbell’s government remains committed to the profits of big business. Their environmental policies amount to nothing more than greenwashing.
  -Carbon tax lets biggest corporate emitters off hook, hits working people hardest
  -Transit spending dwarfed by Gateway port and roadway expansion
  -Regressive impacts of private hydro power
  -Oil and gas expansion a la Alberta tar sands
   
     Needed   
  An independent, forceful movement to address climate change by placing onus on those who caused the problem in the first place — greedy corporations and compliant governments.
   
  This kind of public pressure recently stopped:
  -Upper Pitt River private hydro power project
  -Fish farm expansion on North Coast
   
  How can we take on even bigger issues? How can we prevent the burden of climate change from being shifted onto the backs of working people, or violating the rights of indigenous peoples?
  

  
Join a discussion on what needs to be done
   
   
  Organized by Vancouver Socialist Forum (call 778-858-5179)
   
  
  

       
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