Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders’ London Summit. Join us!

Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn’t do bailouts.

First the city traders spec­u­lat­ed with our homes, jobs and mon­ey – with dis­as­trous results. Now they are spec­u­lat­ing with our cli­mate and the very future of life on earth – and once again our gov­ern­ments are cheer­ing them on.

By cre­at­ing a brain-bend­ing sys­tem of car­bon pol­lu­tion licens­es, fos­sil fuel com­pa­nies and trad­ing firms have found a way to keep on churn­ing out glob­al warm­ing gas­es and to reap huge wind­fall prof­its at the same time.
Mean­while, the UK gov­ern­ment is jus­ti­fy­ing a third run­way at Heathrow and a coal-fired pow­er sta­tion at Kingsnorth by say­ing that these new “car­bon trad­ing” schemes will mag­i­cal­ly make all their emis­sions van­ish.

They are hand­ing con­trol of our cli­mate over to the same peo­ple and sys­tems that caused the finan­cial col­lapse. All the work­able and fair alter­na­tives aren’t get­ting a look-in

We need to stop this fool­ish­ness.

We’ve camped against the Heathrow run­way, we’ve camped against the Kingsnorth coal pow­er sta­tion. Now its time to camp against the over-arch­ing prob­lem: absolute faith in unfet­tered mar­kets and end­less eco­nom­ic growth. On April 1st the G20 lead­ers arrive in Lon­don. At a time of cli­mate cri­sis their response to the mar­ket melt­down is emer­gency loans to car man­u­fac­tur­ers, increased spend­ing to encour­age con­sump­tion, and bailouts for the very peo­ple who got us into this mess — just the thing that will make the cli­mate cri­sis worse.

Don’t let them get away with it: join our camp in the Square Mile! Gath­er at noon, April 1st, at the Euro­pean Cli­mate Exchange, Hasil­wood House, 62 Bish­ops­gate, EC2N 4AW. Bring a pop-up tent, sleep­ing bag, wind tur­bine, mobile cin­e­ma, action plans and ideas…let’s imag­ine anoth­er world.

Don’t let the finan­cial and fos­sil fools make the rules!

for updates, details on back-up plans, and mor­e­in­for­ma­tion, vis­it us again at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20

To get involved, come to our plan­ning meet­ing on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 14th in Lon­don (arrive at the library hou­use, 52 Knatch­bull, at 1 pm for a 1:30 start) or come to the gath­er­ing on March the 6th/7th in Not­ting­ham.

Email g20 [@] climatecamp.org.uk for more infor­ma­tion.

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Help cel­e­brate Fos­sil Fools Day and Finan­cial Fools Day