Bolivian President Evo Morales Offers 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth. By Evo Morales, International Journal of Socialist Renewal, December 15, 2008. "Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life... While the United States and the European Union allocate $4100 billion to save the bankers from a financial crisis that they themselves have caused, programs on climate change get 313 times less, that is to say, only $13 billion... The vast majority of resources flow to those countries that have contaminated the most, and not to the countries where we have preserved the environment most... The next summit on climate change in Copenhagen must allow us to make a leap forward if we want to save Mother Earth and humanity. For that purpose the following proposals for the process from Poznan to Copenhagen: 1) Attack the structural causes of climate change... 2) Developed countries need to control their patterns of consumption -- of luxury and waste... 3) Agrofuels are not an alternative, because they put the production of foodstuffs for transport before the production of food for human beings... 20) It is fundamental to structurally transform the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the international economic system as a whole, in order to guarantee fair and complementary trade, as well as financing without conditions for sustainable development that avoids the waste of natural resources and fossil fuels in the production processes, trade and product transport... Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources."
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