The Global Climate Ghetto - Lumumba Di-Aping
Channel: WrongKindofGreen
Date: 2019-12-05

The Global Climate Ghetto 

The "powerful exert what they can and the weak must comply."

"I wait with deep breath to see when the UNFCCC will for once be headed by an #African" 

"There is not one vulnerable man of woman among the UNFCCC chancellery... it has been turned into an attrition area, purposefully created not to reduce emissions in the near future.. belligerent animosity towards developing countries."

Addressing the environment crisis from the perspective of the Global South

October 18, 2018 

Sudanese Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping, Chair of Rights of Future Generations Working Group, voices a critical analysis of the impact of climate change, especially on non-emergent poor countries of the South.

"Summer scorched everyone and everything in the West. Why hasn’t the world made any progress despite this ‘desolation’? Why did Copenhagen fail and why the diplomatic triumphalism of the Paris Accords march to nowhere? Why are the global powers blind to the plight of the non-emergent poor countries of the South? What ought to be done?" [Source: Victoria and Albert Museum]

"'Three groups: quintessential establishment types, adept diplomats - sophisticated delegates in cahoots with fossil fuel heavy weights; anti-ecological environmentalists - they who love trees but find no inconsistency between their love of the environment and discrimination."

"2 degrees and the riches are theirs... 2 degrees and we are dead and they are not. 4 degrees and we won't live and they won't live. Do they know?... 6 degrees and the world is pyrrh."

"Africa is a non-industrial block of nations that has contributed nearly zero emissions since the herald of the anthropocene... Africa has been a colony denied the dignity of being human... yet Africa is already suffering from climate change." 

December 11, 2009, COP15:

The Most Important COP Briefing the World Never Heard 

"... and I will say this to our colleagues from Western civil society - you have definitely sided with a small group of industrialists and their representatives and your representative branches. Nothing more than that. You have become an instrument of your governments." - Lumumba Di-Aping

Where is the line that distinguishes the bystander from the perpetrator when atrocity becomes both systemic and political? 

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