Our Climate - Not Your Business

(English below)

 

Erhvervslivet forsøger at gøre vores og hele verdens klima til deres forretning!

Med politisk pres, falske løsninger og masser af penge forsøger virksomheder konstant at overbevise verdens befolkning og verdens ledere om, at de kan løse klimakrisens problemer, og at det er dem vi skal lytte til … Og det lykkes desværre alt for godt!

Den 11. december bliver der afholdt erhvervsdag i forbindelse med COP15. Både FN og mange vestlige regeringsledere har allerede udtalt at de ikke kan forestille sig at lave en aftale i København, uden at erhvervslivet er inddraget. Så det er tydeligt, at virksomhedernes lobbyarbejde ­ – og især olie og kul-lobbyerne – allerede har gjort deres skade.

 

Men virksomhederne er ikke en del af løsningen! De er selve problemet! Som det er nu, står 122 af verdens virksomheder for 80 % af al den CO₂, der bliver udledt på verdensplan. Mens virksomhederne sviner i en grad, der går nærmest ubemærket hen, får civilsamfundet tudet øerne fulde med, at de skal spare på vandet og skrue ned for varmen. Og sådan vil det blive ved med at være, så længe virksomhederne ikke bliver stillet til ansvar for deres handlinger.

 

Så længe olie-industrien betaler politikernes valgkampagner, er der bare ingen udsigt til, at politikerne vil stille dem til ansvar for deres forurening. De tror i stedet blindt på de løsninger, som erhvervslivet – der selv har skabt krisen – fremstiller. Og det er falske løsninger så som kvote-handel, klima-projekter i 3. verdenslande og teknologi betalt af statsbudgetterne, som virksomhederne kan tjene penge på. For alle disse såkaldte løsninger har det til fælles – ud over, at ingen af dem reelt virker – at de skaber nye markeder for erhvervslivet og dermed STORE indtjeninger. I slutningen af 2008 var det globale kvote-marked eksempelvis omkring 640 mia. kr. værd!

 

Intet af dette tjener noget som helst andet formål end profit, og CO2-udledningen får lov til at forsætte, mens virksomhederne bliver ved med at sætte profit over alt andet og dermed ignorerer alle menneskelige hensyn. Dette fokus på profit er uforeneligt med det akutte behov, resten af verden har for en hurtig og effektiv løsning på krisen. En løsning, som kun kan opnås, hvis man ændrer radikalt på disse prioriteringer, sætter mennesker over profit og lukker virksomhedernes manipulerende indflydelse helt ude af klimaforhandlinger!

 

Derfor er der kun én vej at gå:

Luk erhvervslivet ude af klimaforhandlingerne!

Drop markedsløsningerne!

Mennesker før profit!

 

Mød op på Nytorv i indre by kl. 10.00 sharp!

Derfra vil vi bevæge os til forskellige steder i byen, hvor folk får mulighed for at bruge diverse strategier for at forstyrre business as usual. Dress for success.

Et sidste infomøde til blive afholdt torsdag den 10. kl. 19.00.

 

Mere information på:

www.DontBuyTheLie.dk

NotYourBussiness@hushmail.com

 

Our Climate! Not Your Business!

 

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The business communities are trying to turn our and the rest of the world’s climate into their business!

With political pressure, fake solutions and a lot of money, companies are constantly trying to convince the world’s population and the world’s leaders that they can solve the problems of the climate crisis, and that we ought to listen to them. Unfortunately, they succeed.

The 11^th of December is called the day of business during the COP15. Both the FN and many other Western leaders have already consented that they can’t imagine making an agreement in Copenhagen without having the business communities involved. That clearly shows the damage done by the companies lobbying, especially the oil and coal lobbying.

 

But the companies aren’t a part of the solution! They are the problem! Right now, a mere 122 of the world’s companies are responsible for 80 % of all the CO₂ emissions worldwide. While the pollution by companies goes almost unnoticed, citizens are constantly told how they have to save water and turn down they heat. And it is going to continue as long as the companies aren’t being held responsible for their actions.

 

As long as the oil-industry is paying for politicians’ election campaigns, it is not likely that the politicians will hold them responsible for their pollution. Instead they believe blindly in the solutions suggested by the business community – the creators of the crisis. And it is false solutions such as quota trading, climate projects in the 3rd world countries, and technology paid by the state budgets, from which all the companies are profiting. Because all these so-called solutions have one thing in common – beside the fact that none of them really works: they create new markets for the business communities which leads to BIG profits. At the end of 2008, as an example, the global quota market was worth around 86 billion euros.

 

None of this serves any other purpose than profit, and the CO₂ emissions continue while the companies keep putting profit above everything, thus ignoring all human concerns. This focus on profit is incompatible with the vital need which the rest of the world has for a quick and effective solution to the crisis. A solution that can only be reached if you radically change these priorities, start to put people before profit and stop the companies’ manipulating influence on the climate negotiations!

 

Therefore, there is only one way:

Stop the business community’s influence on the climate negotiations!

Drop the market solutions!

People before profit!

 

Meet at 10:00 sharp at Nytorv, a square in the inner city. From there we will proceed to a variety of targets where people are empowered to use a diversity of tactics to disrupt business as usual. Dress for success. A final action planning meeting will be held on Thursday, December 10^th at 19:00.

 

More information on the direct action plan at,

www.DontBuyTheLie.dk

NotYourBussiness@hushmail.com

 

Our Climate! Not Your Business!