[van-announce] Vancouver Socialist Forum Presents: After the Bali conference: Can Global Warming Be Stopped?

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Vancouver Socialist Forum Presents:

After the Bali conference:
Can Global Warming Be Stopped?
A green-left panel discussion on the climate crisis

Sunday January 20th at 3 pm
SFU Harbour Center
515 W. Hastings St.

Featured Speaker:
Ian Angus
Editor of the online journal Climate and Capitalism and managing
editor of Socialist Voice. He is a founder and coordinating committee
member of the Ecosocialist International Network.

Over 11,000 people 187 countries from gathered in Bali, Indonesia last
month to begin planning for a post-Kyoto treaty on climate change.
Canada played a key role, in alliance with the USA, in ensuring that
the meeting was all talk and no action. Result: a roadmap to nowhere,
a vague statement with no targets and no plan for cutting greenhouse
gases.
The only concrete measure approved in Bali was a fraudulent "forest
protection" fund organized by the World Bank, a scheme that makes the
poorest countries pay for the damage caused by the richest, an attack
on the rights of indigenous people everywhere.

Why did the Bali conference fail?
Will the next climate treaty be worse than Kyoto?
Why is Canada blocking action?
Can we impose a people's roadmap for climate justice?
How can we act to prevent climate catastrophe?

Organized by
Vancouver Socialist Forum
For more info: 778-554-2730


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