The UN COP-17 climate talks Durban, South Africa. Prof. Patrick Bond, U. of KwaZulu-Natal,Durban says be glad Copenhagen & Cancun failed. Durban too. It's a deal that keeps on polluting. From London, Murray Worthy of World Development Movement, plus Durban activists. Also: Madeline Kovacs from projectsurvivalmedia.org on new youth media at COP-17.
Interviews by Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
2 short clips from video courtesy World Development Movement
Song clip "Change Change" by Thistle (Canadian, no album)
My thanks to Daphne Wysham for guest suggestions.
Also available as two 29 minute segments allowing for Station ID/announcements. Posted below.
Starting November 28th world leaders gather for the "Conference of the Polluters" in Durban, South Africa.
After the disappointments of Copenhagen and Cancun, does anyone really care? Do we have the luxury of despair, as rising greenhouse gases threaten everything we know, and coming generations?
The real show at Durban, offically known as COP-17, the Conference of the Parties - is the what happens outside the gathering of world leaders and their industrial supporters. In this program you hear the other voices.
Directly from South Africa, Professor Patrick Bond lays out the awful truth, where climate talks have gone into the dead zone. The climate justice movement to hopes to change all that. I ask Bond if it will be safe to protest in Durban.
Through the World Development Movement, you will hear two more from Durban. Bandile Mdlalose is from the shack-dwellers' movement in Durban. And from the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, campaigner Bongani Mthembu explains what everyone from Occupy Wall St knows: corporations control our governments.
From London, Murray Worthy of WDM explains the recent Durban activist tour, and expectations for the coming climate conference.
Learning from the exclusion of activists in Copenhagen, environnment groups are working to empower youth from developing countries, using new media.
In San Francisco, we talk to Madeline Kovacs of Project Survival Media about youth media teams coming to Durban, from India, Kenya, and more.
It is your planet. Tune into the climate underground, soon to erupt into the mainstream, with Radio Ecoshock.
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