Cambio climático, S.A. es un trabajo del Transnational Institute que ahora FUHEM Ecosocial publica en castellano. Los autores documentan meticulosamente cómo los ejércitos y las corporaciones, con el consenso de ciertos grupos políticos, buscan hacer del cambio climático un gran negocio del que lucrarse, mientras profundizan la exclusión de las y los desposeídos, expuestos a las peores consecuencias. Al mismo tiempo, el libro invita a la ciudadanía a pensar otros modos de abordar las consecuencias de la crisis climática respetando los derechos sociales y la sostenibilidad. Las visiones alternativas aspiran a alejarnos de fantasmagóricos escenarios de ecofascismo y a reformularlas estructuras políticas y económicas vigentes para avanzar hacia sociedades más justas y equitativas.
El libro plantea una serie de incómodas pero necesarias cuestiones ante las que no podemos permanecer indiferentes: ¿Quiénes son los ganadores y los perdedores de las nuevas estrategias de «seguridad climática»? ¿Cuáles son las implicaciones de que instituciones como el Pentágono o corporaciones como Shell reformulen el alcance del cambio climático desde los ámbitos de justicia social y ambiental a los de seguridad? ¿Qué es lo que se va a asegurar, para quién, por parte de quién y a qué coste?
De todo ello, con la presencia de Nick Buxton, uno de los autores y editores del libro, debatiremos en las presentaciones públicas que tendrán lugar los días 14, 15 y 16 de junio en Madrid, Barcelona y Bilbao, en colaboración con las organizaciones que han apoyado a FUHEM Ecosocial para la edición, distribución y difusión de este libro: Parte Hartuz (Universidad del País Vasco), Ekologistak Martxan, el Centre Dèlas D´Estudis per la Pau, Novact y Ecologistas en Acción.
Según escribe Santiago Álvarez, director de FUHEM Ecosocial, en el prólogo del libro:
“Este libro lanza la inquietante advertencia de que asistimos a una adaptación militarizada al cambio climático. Los efectos del calentamiento global son contemplados como riesgos políticos y de seguridad nacional desde el prisma exclusivo de los intereses dominantes en cada país. De ahí que la adaptación militarizada al cambio climático no signifique otra cosa que la respuesta a esas amenazas con ejércitos y fuerzas de seguridad privadas con la doble misión de fortificar archipiélagos de prosperidad en medio de océanos de miseria y expulsar de sus hábitats a una fracción de la humanidad calificada de sobrante o prescindible.”
Podéis descargar el texto completo del prólogo del libro en formato pdf: Prólogo a la Edición en castellano, por Santiago Álvarez Cantalapiedra.
También podéis leer el Prólogo de Susan George (pdf)
Podéis adquirir el libro en la Librería de Fuhem Ecosocial.
Más información sobre el libro en este completo Dossier.
Estos son los actos, con todos sus detalles:
Madrid: miércoles, 14 de junio de 2017 a las 19 horas.
Espacio Abierto FUHEM (Av. de Portugal, 79 posterior)
- Nick Buxton, coautor del libro y editor de Transnational Institute (TNI)
- Erika González, representante de Ecologistas en Acción y OMAL
- Santiago Álvarez, director de FUHEM Ecosocial
Este acto será retransmitido en directo a través del canal en YouTube de Fuhem.
Agenda:
Barcelona: jueves, 15 de junio de 2017 a las 19 horas.
Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna (sala de Graus) (Plaça de Joan Coromines)
- Nick Buxton, coautor del libro y editor de TNI.
- Onno Seroo, director del Grado en Relaciones Internacionales.
- Nuria del Viso, editora del libro e investigadora de FUHEM Ecosocial
- Tica Font, directora del Institut Català per la Pau (ICIP)
- Aida Vila, asesora política de Greenpeace España (pendiente de confirmación)
Bilbao, viernes 16 de junio de 2017 a las 19 horas.
Louise Michel Liburuak (C/ Elkano, 27)
- Nick Buxton, coautor del libro y editor de TNI
- Iñaki Bárcena, representante de Ekologistak Martxan y Parte Hartuz
- Nuria del Viso, editora del libro e investigadora de FUHEM Ecosocial
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A summary in Storify of the conference can be found here.
Provisional programme as of 13 November 2015. Speakers still to be finalised.
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Relationship between climate/ecological crises, conflicts/conflictuality, and military activities:
The working languages are French and English.
The meeting will be held:
Assemblée européenne des citoyens (Helsinki Citizens' Assembly HCA-France), together with its partners of IPAM network (Initiatives for Another World), Catholic Committee CCFD Terre Solidaire, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN-France), the French Association of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (AMFPGN), the House of vigilance, the Observatoire des armements and CRDPC, the Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP Brussels), Transnational Institute (TNI Amsterdam), Statewatch, Friends of the Earth, ATTAC, Focus on the Global South, Scientists for Global Responsibility
Military activities, environmental impact.
2.00-3.00 pm: Introduction, Military activities, strategy, climate.
The carbon footprint and pollution impact of arms and military policies. Why are greenhouse gas emissions resulting from military activities not included in the climate negotiations? A strategic transition needed for "sustainable security".
3.00-5.00pm: The ENMOD Convention and the questions about geoengineering
Is the ENMOD UN Convention (Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques), a "sleeping beauty"? Addressing global imbalances and the risks of geoengineering. Extension and updating of the ENMOD Convention. Why has this convention not been signed by France? (Among other states)
5.30 -7.30 pm: Nuclear threat and Climate
What is the impact of a brutal cooling related to the intentional or accidental use of nuclear weapons on climate, agriculture and health. Nuclear energy a false solution to reduce CO2 emissions.
The environmental dimension of conflicts
Recurrent droughts, water stress, sea level rise, extreme weather events will increase with climate change, but their impacts will depend on political and economic decisions made by powerful actors. What will be their effects in regions of tension, dislocation and war? How do we prevent conflict and defend human rights?
10.00-12.00 am: (in cooperation with CCFD): Wars and climate crises, Case study: Middle East
In a region ravaged by war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, civil war in Syria, Iraq, Yemen regional and global geopolitical tensions, what is the impact of environmental issues, water, repeated droughts, etc. With particular attention to the situation in Palestine, Syria and Iraq and across the Euphrates and Tigris basin.
Climate Threat, Human Security
2.00-4.00 pm: Colonising the future - the Military-Industrial complex and Climate change
Military strategists consider "climate threats" and generally ecological crises, as central issues of security. What are their proposals and projections? Is it a new opportunity for military-industrial lobbies? Are there alternatives?
4.30-6.30: Challenging securitisation of our Climate-changed World
Current and future threats to our food, water, energy are all being framed today in terms of security. What is the impact of securitising everything? How do we resist and how can we forge true human security?
10.00-12.00 am: Self organized workshop: Resistance and Alternative, struggles for Peace and Environment, common plans for action
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The panel of Dutch and international experts on climate change and security issues will expose the dangers of a new climate security agenda in which the powerful respond to the climate crisis with military and corporate solutions. But it will also share the stories and practices of communities worldwide building the inspiring alternatives that promise a just transition to a climate-changed world.
Ben Hayes is a co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed, a TNI fellow who has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in national and international security policies. He is the author of NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex (Transnational Institute, 2009) and has written widely on the impact of counter-terrorism on human rights, peace-building and civil society; on border control and the development of ‘Fortress Europe’; and on surveillance before and after Edward Snowden.
Nick Buxton is a co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed, Communications Manager for Transnational Institute (TNI) and has been involved in global justice and environmental justice movements for over 20 years . He is editor of TNI’s annual State of Power reports and the book Shifting Power – Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies (2015).
Mirjam van Reisen is Professor of International Relations, Innovation and Care at Tilburg University and the founding director of Europe External Policy Advisors (EEPA), a research centre of expertise on European Union external policy based in Brussels and member of the supervisory board of TNI.
Moderator: Anouschka Laheij
Cohosted by Milieudefensie
The event will expose a dangerous new climate security agenda in whichthe powerful are responding to the unfolding climate crisis with military solutions. But it also puts forward and tells the stories of the inspiring alternatives that promise a just transition to a climate-changed world.
Speakers
Ben Hayes is a co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed, TNI fellow who has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in national and international security policies. He is the author of NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex (Transnational Institute, 2009) and has written widely on the impact of counter-terrorism on human rights, peace-building and civil society; on border control and the development of ‘Fortress Europe’; and on surveillance before and after Edward Snowden.
Asad Rehman coordinates Friends of the Earth's international climate work, is a star interviewee in Naomi Klein's recent film This Changes Everything, and has been actively involved in countless anti-racist and social justice struggles in London.
Jo Ram is co-founder of Community Reinvest, an organisation that works with the fossil fuel divestment movement to demystify finance and enable reinvestment of divested funds into a democratic and just energy system. She is also an academic at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL where she teaches on social action and climate change, a member of the Red Pepper Editorial Collective, and an activist with the Art Not Oil Coalition.
Nick Buxton is a co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed, Communications Manager for Transnational Institute (TNI) and has been involved in global justice and environmental justice movements for over 20 years . He is editor of TNI’s annual State of Power reports and the book Shifting Power – Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies (2015).
Ryvka Barnard is Senior Campaigns Officer for Militarism and Security at War on Want.
After the debate, there will be a chance to meet the authors, received signed books, and find out more about local organisations involved in campaigning on many of these issues.
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‘A tremendous book that shows how the few intend to profit from climate change and how the many can stop it happening.’
JOHN VIDAL, Guardian
‘Will we respond to the climate crisis with the politics of fear and business as usual – and in so doing condemn millions? Or will we wrest power from the corporations and the military in order to develop the radical just solutions we need?’
PABLO SOLON, Former Ambassador to Bolivia and lead climate negotiator to the UN
