California's Carbon Trading and other False Climate Solutions that Threaten Land and Lives

California's Carbon Trading and other False Climate Solutions

Jeff will explain how California's recent carbon-trading deal with Mexico is leading to displacement of the poor; how tiny chipboard houses are being built on steep deforested hillsides and called "sustainable" rural cities designed to "combat the dispersion and marginalization of local peoples"; and how African palm plantations in Honduras are fueling increased repression of peasant movements.

Jeff Conant is a writer, educator, and social justice activist with a focus on international development and ecology. He has published articles and contributed to reports on water privatization, resource colonization, food sovereignty, ecological sanitation, environmental injustice, and related issues. He is a coordinating committee member of La Red VIDA (the InterAmerican Network for the Defense of the Right to Water), a permaculturalist, and sits on advisory boards of several non-profit organizations.*

This presentation is sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas. A $5-10 donation is suggested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

* See also a written version of Jeff's recent Report Back from Chiapas at: A Broken Bridge to the Jungle: The California-Chiapas Climate Agreement Opens Old Wounds

[Note: This indybay calendar posting has been compiled from other Internet sources by Nim Chimpsky (indybay@nimchimpsky.veryspeedy.net), who is not involved with putting on this event and apologizes in advance for any possible errors introduced by him.]