CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLE

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CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THE PEOPLE

• Don K. Marut
• INFID
• PAN AP CONFERENCE
• Penang, 27 29 September 2009

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Introduction

• The Climate Change is an issue of humanity.
• It cannot be solved just by technological fix or
  just by environmental fix, or just by economic
  fix.
• It is rooted in the deviation of understanding of
  human nature, human relations, humanity and
  living beings and the space.

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Climate Injustice

• Climate Change took place as a result of
  injustice ? 150 years of colonialism and
  neocolonialism and imperialism.
• The solution to Climate Change has been put
  within injustice Frameworks market oriented vs.
  the human and ecological frameworks.
• The measures on Climate Change will create deeper
  injustice the poor countries have the same
  responsibilities as the developed countries.

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Three Areas and Levels of Injustice

• Process Level
• Contents Level
• Enforcement Measures

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Climate Justice Movement Crowded and Slippery

• Various groupings are involved each group
  promote its own principles Climate Justice Now
  It is Time for Climate Justice Environmental
  Justice and Climate Justice, etc.
• The problem of definition of Justice Justice for
  whom? Market-oriented vs. the People.
• The People as source of legitimacy
• The people as the object of exploitation

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Carbon Trade as Carbon Colonialism

• Developed countries become developed because of
  colonialism, imperialism and human slavery.
• Carbon Trade is another form of colonialism.
  Accepting carbon trade mechanism means accepting
  new form of colonialism. (Eg. Income generating
  activity?)

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Peoples Protocol

• The Peoples Movement on Climate Change is seen
  as another variant of Climate Justice. Actually
  it is not.
• Peoples Protocol is intended to be an
  anti-thesis to the market-oriented Kyoto
  Protocol an anti-thesis to the whole unjust
  mechanisms related to the climate change issue a
  way to revitalize the fundamental worldviews on
  humanity, human nature and the space.
• It is The People vs. Kyoto Protocol (Profit).

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Conclusion

• This is the best time for all nations in the
  world to look into their fundamental world views,
  whether the choices that have been made and the
  relations involved have been in line with the
  fundamental worldviews of humanity and human
  relations and the space or not.

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• Since the climate change is a global human issue,
  it is not the best time for the developing
  countries for decoupling from the developed
  world
• All have to take part in justice mechanisms.
• But it is the time to get rid of the carbon
  colonialism, and stand up together as equal human
  beings with the same rights to the sky and
  ecological space.

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TERIMA KASIH