Until October 2, the Alternative Forum on Climate Change is being held in Panama, where women and men: peasants, indigenous people, Afro-descendants, and members of organizations are raising their voices, calling and calling themselves. The reason is that in Latin America and the Caribbean (including Ecuador), processes are taking place that unite and deepen conflicts related to nature and ways of life in themselves, conflicts that are manifested in the criminalization of protests, marginalization and dispossession of communities, and the depredation of Mother Earth's resources.
Models based on the exploitation of nature and the relaxation of historically acquired rights. But at the same time, people are also resisting. Evidence of this is the struggle of social movements defending nature in Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and many other countries. In our continent, as elsewhere, countries are markets, cities are companies and towns are consumers. It is a permanent state of exception, where everything is done to eliminate enemies along the way: those who fight for another way of life.
The same thing happens with climate change: a phenomenon used to renew itself, to continue making profits, to privatize and to enrich itself in the name of a deep societal crisis. In the perception of the extractive industries and the governments that sponsor them, no matter what they say to the contrary, there is no real climate crisis. They may say there is, but they continue to deny it, because if there were, they would have already acted forcefully and would not continue to create and seek spaces to achieve and open new oil frontiers, as is the case in Ecuador, where the start of a new round of bidding for oil blocks was recently announced, which will begin as planned on October 31.
In this way, the people of Latin America are seeking to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which aims to reach agreements for the Summit in Durban, South Africa, to be held in late November and early December.
Climate crisis, or systemic crisis, towards the construction of alternatives from the people
1- The Climate Change Crisis: Genesis, Impacts and False Solutions.
2- Climate Change and Debt. Deepening of the instrument of control and domination for the peoples of the Global South.
3-Challenges of Mesoamerican peoples in the face of the systemic crisis, Building a new paradigm from and for the Social peoples.
Economic, political and community issues in the face of the climate crisis. Each panel should open with an introduction by the facilitator of the topic:
– Involvement and economic alternatives
– Involvement and ecological alternatives
– Involvement and political alternatives
– Social involvement and alternatives
– Cultural Implications from the Worldview of the People.
«Do not accept the usual as a matter of course, for in times of widespread confusion, of conscious arbitrariness, of dehumanized humanity, nothing should seem impossible to change» Bertolt Brecht
“…If we don’t resist, our children will disappear again!” Inés Ragni, Mother of Plaza de Mayo, Neuquén-Alto Valle.
«Let us build resistance together in the hope that another world is possible!» Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1980.
Ecological Studies, Ballenita Magazine Yes