Comments on: Call for Coordinated Activities and Actions for Climate Justice http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2009/11/29/call-for-coordinated-activities-and-actions-for-climate-justice/ Leave the world a better place Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:30:27 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ricky Ward http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2009/11/29/call-for-coordinated-activities-and-actions-for-climate-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Ricky Ward Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:40:03 +0000 http://www.ourchiangmai.com/?p=476#comment-61 - email from Patrick Bond, from University of Natal, Durban : Hi Ricky, Agree with your call for an eco-socialist approach, and naming it as such. Disagree with your hostility to reparations (Versailles Treaty not comparable, while Marshall Plan was imperialist); see attached for full argument. Cheers, Patrick > · December 14 - which will be the day of action not on Ecological Debt and Climate Debt but but on ending and reversing Economic Growth and reversing the negative effects of Imperialism & Neo-colonialism. We urge you to organize actions raising no rejecting the call for Reparations. The call for reparations is misguided in two respects. Firstly looking at history and the punitive reparative outcomes forced on Germany after WWI can be regarded as a cause of the rise of Nazism and WWII. In contrast the Marshall plan was a success which brought peace. Secondly apart from assets such as developed educational and health systems, the so-called developed countries will be found to be close to bankruptcy while faced with the need for an urgent transformation of every aspect of economic life. . Patrick Bond directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs - email from Patrick Bond, from University of Natal, Durban :
Hi Ricky,

Agree with your call for an eco-socialist approach, and naming it as such.

Disagree with your hostility to reparations (Versailles Treaty not comparable, while Marshall Plan was imperialist); see attached for full argument.

Cheers,
Patrick

> · December 14 – which will be the day of action not on Ecological Debt and Climate Debt but but on ending and reversing Economic Growth and reversing the negative effects of Imperialism & Neo-colonialism. We urge you to organize actions raising no rejecting the call for Reparations. The call for reparations is misguided in two respects. Firstly looking at history and the punitive reparative outcomes forced on Germany after WWI can be regarded as a cause of the rise of Nazism and WWII. In contrast the Marshall plan was a success which brought peace. Secondly apart from assets such as developed educational and health systems, the so-called developed countries will be found to be close to bankruptcy while faced with the need for an urgent transformation of every aspect of economic life. .

Patrick Bond directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs

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