Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bolivia, a country whose basket case centrally planned economy should be an example to us all, has boldly proposed that we solve the Climate crisis by giving them all our stuff.
According to Bolivia;
The structural cause that has triggered the climate crisis is the failed capitalist system. The capitalist system promotes consumerism, warmongering and commercialism, causing the destruction of Mother Earth and humanity. The capitalist system is a system of death. Hence, capitalism is leading humanity towards a horizon of destruction that sentences nature and life itself to death. In this regard, for a lasting solution to the climate crisis we must destroy capitalism.
The capitalist system seeks profit without limits, strengthens the divorce between human beings and nature; establishing a logic of domination of men against nature and among human beings, transforming water, earth, the environment, the human genome, ancestral cultures, biodiversity, justice and ethics into goods. In this regard, the economic system of capitalism privatizes the common good, commodifies life, exploits human beings, plunders natural resources and destroys the material and spiritual wealth of the people.
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As a result of implementing the Bolivian index proposal, non- Annex I countries [e.g. Bolivia] would have a total of 89% of the [future emissions] budget and Annex I countries [like America] only 11%. Also, to perform monitoring and sanction non-compliance with international commitments involves establishing an International Climate Justice Tribunal.
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Extreme poverty in Bolivia reached 17.3% of the population in 2015, and this will be erradicated by 2025. However, this is not possible if there are no actions to fully develop the national economy and reduce the impacts of change climate. Thus, Bolivia has prioritized a linkage of mitigation and adaptation actions in complementarity with the holistic development in the areas of water, energy, forests and agriculture as part of its 2025 Patriotic Agenda, and national development plans.
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Structural solutions to the climate crisis
1. Adoption of a new model of civilization in the world without consumerism, war-mongering, and mercantilism, a world without capitalism; build and consolidate a world order of Living Well that defends and promotes the integral rights of our peoples, undertaking the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.
2. Construction of a climate system based on responsibility to Mother Earth,the culture of life and the full realization of humanity in their holistic development, humanizing the economy, surpassing the simplistic approach to decarbonization of the economy.
3. Protection of the Rights of Mother Earth in an articulated and complementary manner to the rights of peoples to their development.
4. Defense of universal common goods such as the seas and oceans,water,atmospheric space, as well as the technological monopoly, promoting people’s access to the common heritage.
5. Elimination of patents on technologies and recognition of the human right to science and technology of life.
6. Effective implementation by governments of the human right to water.
7. Establishment of the International Court of Justice Climate and Mother Earth to enable countries to fulfill their international commitments to climate change in a context of respect for the rights of peoples and of Mother Earth.
8. Allocate the resources of the military machinery of the imperial powers and the war-mongers to finance the activities of the peoples against climate change.
9. Eradication of commodification of nature and carbon markets promoting business climate millionaires, which do not solve the problem of the climate crisis.
10. Decolonize natural resources environmental colonial biased views that see the peoples of the South as forest rangers of Northern countries and communities as enemies of nature.
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Bolivia has a vast abundance of valuable natural resources – their poverty is a political failure, not a lack of opportunity.
Perhaps if the Bolivian government were to prioritise straightforward economic development and consumerism, and enthusiastically embrace profit making, rather than whining about all the stuff other people own, and talking up their national love of nature, they might actually help the 17.3% of their people who are currently suffering extreme poverty, instead of having to keep stringing them along with implausible national poverty eradication plans plans.
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Note to Bolivia: DROP DEAD,.
Mods!
OPPS!
Messed up my “blockquote””
Mother earth! Oh! What ever shall we do? The guilt! .. for the children for God’s sake!
Got anymore crap. First whatever we’re doing doesnt/isn’t causing the climate to change. Second, get a life. Fix your own problems. I see how well your system that’s working for you. It’s a freaking model of what not to do. All those people who are pouring across the border, they’re voting with their feet. Nobody on this planet wants to live in brutal poverty.
So, he doesn’t think that people should benefit from the product of their labor. Instead, he proposes a return to feudalism where people serve at the pleasure of their leaders.
Are Bolivians pro-choice? This has the tell-tale signs of that unprincipled cult.
Most Bolivians are pro-life. Morales’ MAS Party (Movement Toward Socialism) has tried to get the law changed to allow abortion on demand, rather than only in cases of rape or incest, but has so far failed to get bills to that effect passed.
Pro-choice is leftists killing their next generation. I don’t get the opposition to that.
These slimeballs want to both rob us blind and destroy democracy, all in the name of “saving the planet”.
It is an outrage.
Bruce
It’s interesting that you say in the name of “saving the planet”. The spin has moved on. It will be far easier to sue for impacts to public health. Im pretty sure you’ll hear far more about that in the future. You can see it when you dig into the local NGOs that are affiliated with the larger ones. Their webpages are full of those connections.
The Bolivian Presidential Palace
Can anyone say hypocrisy?
Sure to need “renovating” and at least another 500 rooms for family members.
A real “Man of the People”, there.
That’s just the garage, Pat ;o)
That’s all right then. 🙂
Thanks, Eric Worrall.
In the picture caption:
“Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Bolivian President Evo Morales meet in Caracas, Venezuela.” [with president Nicolas Maduro]
They head the still surviving (barely) South American governments representing the elusive “Foro de Sao Paulo”.
I chronicle the Venezuelan crisis in the link under my name.
The proper spelling these days is Carcass, Venezuela.
Great stuff. Hopefully there will be more of this kind to make the Paris Conference a total farce.
Just this morning I was considering the real problem of the UN; it’s leadership is filled with dictators and racists from 2nd and 3rd world counties seeking the destruction of the United States of America.
Yep.
Consider the problem of the Democrat Party, its leadership filled with dictators and racists seeking the destruction of the USA.
+500
Sounds like the Pope wrote it.
Francis is keeping the Hammer and Cycle crucifix Evo gave him:
http://d2jkk5z9de9jwi.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2015/07/20150708cnsnw0009-800×500.jpg
Amazing photo. It says it all really, as all giving and all charity is always (as history history witnesses) crucified on the cross of communism.
Bolivia’s proposals seem rational, logical and easy enough to implement.
LOL
“The structural cause that has triggered the climate crisis is the failed capitalist system.”
Correction – There is no climate crisis and capitalism has not failed, but crony capitalism has become endemic in the western developed economies, just like in Bolivia.
Communist countries contributed massive amounts of CO2 to the air before the fall of the Soviet Union and now ostensibly communist China is the biggest offender.
CO2 growth has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with industrialization. Capitalist countries can afford to limit pollution, unlike China (real pollution, that is, not beneficial CO2).
!!, yes, you are on a roll this evening.
Ya know Mr Morales little country has tremendous natty gas reserves. Of course that makes my ears tingle when I read his diatribe. So perhaps it can go like this.
I own an assload of fossil fuel. I join a movement to condemn such fuel and people btw still need it. The price goes up eventually. All “bad” things that people need go up in price. In the meantime, you pay me for because my neighborhood hasn’t used as much of the bad stuff as you have. I get paid twice. You pay me now for being bad and you pay me later when I sell you what you need.
The cocaine trade might have taught Mr Morales a thing or two about how to do business.
Bolivia is scheduled to have a referendum this February on ‘reforming’ their constitution. Current polls are mixed, but some report a narrow plurality rejecting the change. They currently report economic growth, but if they pursue crony socialism a la Venezuela, they are likely to experience similar outcomes. Venezuela is clearly a basket case whose misery cannot continue much longer.
https://dolartoday.com/fin-de-la-pesadilla-socialista-mayoria-de-bolivianos-rechaza-la-reeleccion-de-morales/
Thanks for that link.
Let’s hope that Pagina Siete has public opinion correct, with 52% opposed to the constitutional amendment permitting Evo another term, and only 42% in support.
¡Ojala!
We can only hope that those who count the votes are honest. That’s pretty rare in socialist countries.
Juan, you write: “Venezuela is clearly a basket case whose misery cannot continue much longer.”
I agree with your general assessment, the “basket case”, but according to Carlos Alberto Montaner; Los dos planes de Nicolás Maduro, 7 de noviembre de 2015, at http://www.gentiuno.com/07/11/2015/carlos-alberto-montaner-los-dos-planes-de-nicolas-maduro/
“The course of the future of Venezuela will start defining in only 28 days during a parliamentary election to be held on December 6 of this year.
By midnight on that date, when Tibisay Lucena, rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE), announces new members of the Parliament (aka National Assembly or AN) for the next five years, it will be clear if the Government resorted to its Plan A or B as explained by Carlos Alberto Montaner, a Cuban journalist and writer, in his article “The two plans of Nicolás Maduro” published in the news site Gentiuno a couple of days ago.”
From there, Montaner raises the likelihood that the Government has a plan A and B for December 6.
He explains that Plan A will consist of “winning the election or accept defeat by a minimum amount of votes. How does it pull it off? By imprisoning or prohibiting opposition leaders that may talk many of their compatriots into casting their ballot on December 6 from participating in the election. That is the case, among others, of Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado. By manipulating voting machines. By generating false ID cards. By modifying constituencies to favor its own candidates. By abusing the media. By obstructing the voting process of the opposition in a thousand different ways.” And warns that the purpose of this Plan is “to discourage democrats not to vote. They reckon that with all these tricks the election can be won or lost by a narrow margin. And, if they lose, they will buy a handful of dishonest lawmakers from the opposition at any price and thus continue hanging on to power.”
You mean like the Democrats !!!
Andres,
You are right in expecting Maduro to do whatever he can to retain power. But, unless there is a huge turnaround in petroleum prices, I think we will soon see total economic collapse, followed by social collapse. With the country dependent on imported food and the nation literally broke, the stores will be empty and no amount of standing in line will put food on the table. Hungry people can be dangerous, and they are not going to just sit and watch their kids starve.
But they won’t be too worried about climate change.
“8. Allocate the resources of the military machinery of the imperial powers and the war-mongers to finance the activities of the peoples against climate change.”
So basically the tax payers of countries that have their $h!t together should continue to pay for them but turn control over to “the people” presumably “represented” by this International Climate Justice Tribunal.
I guess if we are all stupid enough to pay for a military then give it to a bunch of thugs so that they can use it to do whatever the heck they want (likely nothing good considering how well they treat their own) then we deserve exactly what we get.
Now you’re in the swing of it. Throw in a Yeti cooler and perhaps one of those Green Egg grills and we’ll even let you hang out to enjoy our culture.
The truth is that the ruling elite has no clue how to promote exonomic development, and if they did, would bot be able to understand why they should. After all, they themselves are quite rich, so there is no problem.
Developing a country rich in natural resources is so easy, even I could do it, it just is not that hard.
bolivian bullshit
Evo is personally more popular than his party. Plus, in presidential elections, he benefits from Venezuelan and Cuban funding.
Bolivians are increasingly seeing through the socialist scam:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/evo-moraless-party-suffers-serious-blows-in-bolivias-local-elections
Dear Mr. Morales….please go F@ur momisugly#% yourself !!!! Thank you !
The way that is worded, it sounds like Bolivia wants to finance people who are against climate change. Apparently, the Koch brothers aren’t giving enough. 🙂
But how is Bolivia going to get “the imperial powers” to beat their swords into plowshares and give them to Bolivia? Are they planning to go to war against the “war-mongers” and force them to do it? Or are they just going to guilt-trip them into feeling sorry for Bolivia by continuing to starve the people with their crappy crony capitalism that only benefits government elites and their friends?
The Mouse that Roared.
Hey, doesn’t point #5 in the manifesto indicate that everyone needs to turn over their climate models to the public domain?
“…for a lasting solution to the climate crisis we must destroy capitalism”
In lockstep with obalmy the commie.
Is Bolivia going to declare war on the “war-mongers” to get them to comply with their demands?
Only when they contribute enough so he can arm to get the job done.
Then they’ll become exactly what they criticize everybody else of being.
These aren’t very smart people, are they?
Once again pure comedy gold.
#2 construction of a climate system..
Oh Yeah.
If we are going to go off the deep end into climate wars, I am with the CO2 addition brigade.
Flame thrower division.(Yes Sarc)
Of course any time idiots attempt to impose their ideology upon others, CO2 emissions will rise, conflict always ups emissions.
Yup…capitalism is sooooo bad, everyone in Bolivia and the other socialist hell holes in South and Central America is busting a move to get up here.
The Bolivian head of state is a loon, but Maduro in Venezuela is absolutely coo coo for Cocoa Puffs.
The problem is that once they arrive here, they start voting to instill in the US, the same system they just fled in their home countries.
I can explain the existence of this ludicrous manifesto.
This was clearly the result of a short period of education comprising only repeat viewing of the movie Avatar whilst stoned on extremely potent herbal intoxicants.
I blame the parents.
The list forgot to demand:
11. The creation of a system of large floating mountains. Mountains that defy gravity and serve no necessary purpose within the plot.