tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76505238605631601152024-03-08T11:44:08.680-08:00Kim Conway...Words and DeedsKim Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069715380180859261noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650523860563160115.post-41734318125913787912009-12-17T12:25:00.000-08:002009-12-18T00:44:09.998-08:00Tomorrow is the day the world leaders begin trying to bang out a fair and binding treaty to help solve the worlds climate crisis<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br />
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<b><div class="note_title_share clearfix" style="display: block; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">With that in mind, it may be a good thing to clarify just what </span><br />
</div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">we are in store for, treaty ( if any ) wise and also what </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">alternatives are being offered and brought to the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">negotiations table...</span></span><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">The heads of participating nations </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">gather to negotiate and come to some </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">progressive agreement that will lead the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">world out of this environmental crisis we </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">face and put us all back on track to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">350 ppm ( parts per million ) of </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(at present we are at 389 and that figure </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">is set to rise dramatically if we do not </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">start curbing our emissions NOW.)</span></span><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">The proposals set out in the talks in the run </span></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">up to COP15 seem geared to reaching this</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by means of Carbon Trading...</span><br />
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</div><div style="clear: none; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Carbon trading is the main way in which wealthy</b><br />
<b> industrialized countries and companies are avoiding</b><br />
<b> their emissions reduction targets - by trading carbon </b><br />
<b>credits amongst themselves, either between countries</b><br />
<b> (as happens under the Kyoto Protocol) or between </b><br />
<b>companies (as happens under the EU Emissions </b><br />
<b>Trading Scheme). Essentially, it's the way that</b><br />
<b> industry can continue as usual, while encouraging </b><br />
<b>the poor and disadvantaged to sell their rights to pollute.</b><br />
</div></div></div><div style="clear: none; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Carbon trading is aimed at the wrong target. It doesn't </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">address climate change. Solving climate change means</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> figuring out how to keep remaining fossil fuels in the </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">ground. It means reorganizing industrial societies' energy,</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> transport and housing systems - starting today - so that</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> they don't rely on coal, oil and gas.</span><br />
</div></div></div><div style="clear: none; line-height: 14px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Carbon trading isn't directed at that </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">goal. Instead, it's organized around</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> keeping the wheels on the fossil fuel </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">industry</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> as long</span><span style="font-size: large;"> as possible. Carbon trading </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">allocates industries</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> a generous short-term numerical </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">emissions </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">budget and then tries - through</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> trading - to make</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> it cheap and easy for them to </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">continue business </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as usual within those budgets,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> by buying credits</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> from less economically developed</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> countries and companies.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even if you were to accept that it might be a</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> good idea, carbon trading has been a </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">massive failure so far and doesn't show</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> any signs of improving. The price of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">carbon has always been so low that it's</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> always</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> cheaper for companies to buy permits </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">than to </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">start paying for more expensive </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">infrastructural</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> changes. The allocations of permits </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">have been </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">so generous that a number of Europe's</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> biggest </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">polluters have made HUGE profits by selling</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> on permits that they didn't need, or</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> by passing </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">on the cost of the permits to consumers - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">despite</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> the fact that they have been handed out </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">for free! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">E.ON is just one example of a company </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">that </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">has made billions in windfall profits so far</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> from carbon trading.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Markets themselves aren't a bad thing, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">but they </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">are when artificially created and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">overly-complex,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> based on an ideological commitment </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">to solving </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">every problem through the market rather </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">than</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> a natural evolution of trading in existing </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">commodities. Important decisions, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">discussions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> and demands about climate change are being </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">swept aside in favour of 'leaving it to the market,' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">despite the fact that it's a market whose </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">parameters </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">and rules have been largely determined </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">by some</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> of the biggest polluters around, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">teaming up with </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">the same financiers responsible for the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">'structured investment vehicles' and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">'credit derivative swaps' that have brought </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">economies crashing down.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And that leads me to the second approach </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">which is being highlighted at Copenhagen </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">during the climate talks, </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The people's KLIMATFORUM09...</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where the official UN conference brings together<br />
heads of state, Klimatforum 09 unites<br />
representatives<br />
from global civil society.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Klimatforum09 is the first truly global, people's<br />
summit on climate change. So far more<br />
than 5.000<br />
peoples from all continents have registered to<br />
participate. More than sixty international<br />
environmental networks and people's<br />
organizations support the initiative. Among<br />
them are Friends of the Earth, Campaign<br />
against<br />
Climate Change, Global Forest Coalition,<br />
Via Campesina and Permaculture<br />
International.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Klimaforum09 aims at constituting a<br />
cohesive<br />
framework for a multitude of conferences,<br />
workshops, exhibitions etc., to<br />
which citizens,<br />
grass roots and organisations<br />
from all over the<br />
world will contribute during the COP15<br />
conference in Copenhagen.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The basis for Klimaforum09 is the<br />
realization<br />
that there is no technological »fix« to the<br />
mounting climate crisis. No technology<br />
per se -<br />
such as i.e. nuclear power, biofuels,<br />
genetically<br />
modified organisms, carbon capture<br />
and storage -<br />
can lead us out of the climate crisis.<br />
Such<br />
solutions will typically lead to far larger<br />
problems than they solve. In contrast,<br />
sustainable<br />
societies require a diversity of locally based<br />
solutions - which again require significant<br />
mobilization of civil society.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Klimaforum09 believes that what is<br />
needed is<br />
building a finely balanced relation to<br />
nature,<br />
thus reducing consumption and<br />
production,<br />
rather than uncritically exploiting<br />
nature<br />
and believing in economic growth<br />
as is the<br />
case in global society today. To<br />
attain<br />
such change we need new ways of<br />
thinking,<br />
new cultural values, and new means<br />
of<br />
organizing society.<br />
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</div></div>Kim Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069715380180859261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650523860563160115.post-35288486709192173332009-10-26T12:42:00.000-07:002009-11-01T10:11:15.609-08:00Isle of Thanet ...Save Our Planet!<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br />
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I painted a banner with the numbers 350 and hung it outside Manston international airport at midday on Saturday 24-10-09 to celebrate International Day of Climate Action. Participating in the largest day of environmental action in history. 350.org or<span style="display: inline;">ganised 5,242 simultanious events on climate in 181 countries to draw attention to 350 parts per million ( ppm) which an overwhelming number of scientists now insist is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.</span><br />
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It was a gloriously sunny day when I was on the bus going to the airport. As soon as I stepped off the bus, it started to rain! Took the airport security 1 and 1/2 hours to realise I shouldn't be doing this but I was very polite, which resulted in the guard going into shock but then asking me what it was all about. Got back on the bus and it immediately stopped raining!! Great fun though and I haven't been this proud since my son was born. Watch the video of the most widespread day of environmental action in the planets history...<br />
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<br />Kim Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069715380180859261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650523860563160115.post-20579331406783340502009-10-23T02:32:00.000-07:002009-10-23T02:39:25.214-07:00GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE! 24 OCTOBER 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Join me in erecting a banner O<span style="font-size: x-large;">n 24 october 2009 at midday, outside</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Manston International Airport</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> to raise awareness of climate change. Manston Airport is planning to increase it's air traffic by commencing night flights from this tiny rural airport.</span></span></b></span><br />
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To celebrate blog action day I am posting up some photo's I took at Kingsnorth in the summer.<br />
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We are winning folks!<br />Kim Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069715380180859261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650523860563160115.post-61614192990814748452009-09-25T07:14:00.000-07:002011-05-18T04:09:39.083-07:00The Amsterdam Years<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j4SwTxMiDiA/Sryx9XYBGJI/AAAAAAAABrc/zfM3GB6_sPk/s1600-h/DSC_0468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j4SwTxMiDiA/Sryx9XYBGJI/AAAAAAAABrc/zfM3GB6_sPk/s400/DSC_0468.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was lucky to meet a group of Dutch squatters when I was in Amsterdam for a weekend, back in the late 80's. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">They invited me and my friend Nicki, to their squat </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Tugelaweg'</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in East Amsterdam. It consisted of a row of old tenement houses,that had been empty for many years. </span></b></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Chris,an English Hippie, who had been living in the Dam for years ( probably after visiting for a weekend) ,Helmut, a Berlin punk who played guitar like a demon, Jim, Dirk and The Doc had the idea of turning the whole street into massive collective and music venue but had only occupied a couple of the houses so far.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We put our plans to travel round Europe on hold and got involved with making this dream come true.</span></b></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.freeteam.nl/patapoe/articles/dood.htm"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black;">Squatting in Amsterdam involved a squatters' movement proper, in which squatting was not only a tactic but also central to its existence. </span></span></a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We knocked 2 of the houses into 1, this was to become our " Clubhouse". We built a bar and a stage from tatted furniture, scavenged from the streets and set up a kitchen.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A few weeks later, we were ready to open.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_j4SwTxMiDiA/Sryw9TXfvaI/AAAAAAAABrU/xGR7Usgh9dU/s1600-h/tugelaweg_586242d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_j4SwTxMiDiA/Sryw9TXfvaI/AAAAAAAABrU/xGR7Usgh9dU/s400/tugelaweg_586242d.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>TUGELAWEG</b></span> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Taken when I was living there. ( my house is 3rd from the right)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">A few months later we were the second largest squat in Amsterdam at the time. Every night over 200 people would come to our clubhouse to listen to bands, eat and discuss the future of the movement.We became a centre for artists, political activists and free thinkers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We would go to the market at the end of every day, and bring back fruit and veg, on our bikes and turn it into gorgeous vegetarian food to serve in the evenings.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We worked closely with</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">CONRADSTRAAT</span></b>, <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">our sister squat situated in disused warehouses along side the Amstel Canal. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">That was a fairly long time squat in Amsterdam. Whole families had made it their home. Kids were born there and brought up there.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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