Thirty Years of Creative Resistance - Friends of the Earth Australia

Fossil fuels have not bought wealth to the
peoples of the Niger Delta. Nor has wealth
been delivered to the Indigenous peoples
of South America or Indigenous peoples of
Canada and the USA. Fossil fuels will only
continue to bring disaster and poverty to
small island states of the Pacific – and likely
the rest of the world - as climate change
increases. The profit of the few yet again is
selling the sovereignty of small island states
and the ecological security of the world in
order to gain unabated market access to oil,
gas and coal.
Hope for the Pacific Island countries lies in
rejecting the fossil fuel based development
paradigm, and through the solidarity built
between grass roots movements across the
world, convincing industrialised countries
to do the same. It is simply not appropriate
for the small island countries to have our
mal-development agenda forced upon them.
It doesn’t work for us, it won’t work for them.
It is economic and politics, not technology,
that constrains the development of clean
renewable energy provision. This will be
an ongoing focus of our work in the climate
justice campaign at Friends of the Earth!
www.foe.org.au/climate
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