Guantanamo, Dec 17 (CMKS).- Bolivia’s President Evo Morales proposed on Monday the creation of a global referendum on climate change during his speech at the Parties Conference of United Nations (COP15) on the subject.
Speaking before the plenary of the Copenhagen summit, Morales described as hypocrisy the fact that here it is being discussed the effect and not the causes of the atmosphere´s global warming, which, he emphasized, are due to excessive consumption patterns.
In the Bolivian president´s new initiative, he pointed out five questions that should be asked to citizens of all nations to then determine what to do.
The first one would say whether civil society wants to establish or not a harmony with nature, whether to change or not extravagant consumption patterns on the planet, and whether it should reduce pollutants emission to one percent.
In addition, other questions indicate whether or not people want that huge war budgets are used for fight against climate change, and finally whether they would accept or not a Court of justice to defend Mother Earth.
Morales underlined that they must release Mother Earth from slavery to which capitalism subdue it and should pay its climate debt, pledging to use less and drastically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
“Our obligation is to save all humanity, not just half of it,” he said.
The Bolivian head of state urged the rich countries to assume their responsibility to stop the asymmetry between continents and accept all those forced to migrate by climate change and not expel them, as they do now.
Like yesterday in statements to Prensa Latina, he said that the Earth can and will exist without humans, “but they can not live without it, so it is more important the right of the Earth than human rights.
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