Monday, October 15, 2018

PROFIT VS PEOPLE Corporate Power + Climate Change = Geocide


susan-geoprgeSusan George: We are faced with determined adversaries who care nothing about human rights or climate change. They only want a world in which they can make endless amounts of money using all available resources, no matter what the costs to nature and to human life.
Susan George is president of the board of the Trans National Institute, an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world. She spoke at the Seminar of the International Center for the promotion of Human Rights [CIPDH] and Unesco titled “Interreligious and inter cultural dialogue: consciences and climate change”  in September in Buenos Aires.  Read her lecture here.

1 comment:

PinP said...

I'd strongly recommend, for anyone interested in this topic, to also read Naomi Klein's excellent book, "This Changes Everything."

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