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By Patrick Bond.
Many feared that for-profit ‘Green Economy’ gimmicks like carbon trading
– resurgent now in California, China, South Africa, Brazil and Korea –
would result from a big march lacking a central demand. As
activist-writer Arun Gupta put it the day before the march, in
Counterpunch ezine: “This is one of those corporate-designed scams that
in the past has rewarded the worst polluters with the most credits to
sell and creates perverse incentives to pollute, because then they can
earn money to cut those emissions. So we have a corporate-designed
protest march to support a corporate-dominated world body to implement a
corporate policy to counter climate change caused by the corporations of
the world, which are located just a few miles away but which will never
feel the wrath of the People’s Climate March.”
It was a valid fear, yet Gupta’s critique proved excessively cynical.
The prevalence of eco-socialist and anarchist marchers generated
repeated anti-capitalist slogans. No one believes that the UN promise to
‘put a price on carbon’ can incrementally address the crisis, given how
erratically the trading mechanisms have so far set that price, in a
world continually battered by financial speculation.
full:
http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-justice-resurfaces-amidst-new-yorks-corporate-sharks/
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