Hello to all of you dangerous radical Climate Change activists ! I've done a little transcript of what George Monbiot and Richard Chartres had to say at the Climate Rally on 4th November 2006 in Grosvenor Square under the brooding shadow of the United States Embassy. I am seeking corrections - but in the mean time : ENJOY ! ============================================================================== Climate March : Rally 4th November 2006 : 12 midday Transcript from the following two Internet Videos :- ============================================================================== [The Right Reverend Richard Chartres, Bishop of London speaks] It's great to see you. I've just come with a whole lot of friends. Hundreds of them. We've been meeting just in the church down the road. And we've had a CUT THE CARBON service. Because that's something we're all agreed on. Let's not mix the messages here - the big thing that needs to change is to CUT THE CARBON. And we had a message. We had a message from the Bishop of Bangladesh. Because one thing the Stern Report does - it takes away the fig leaf. Climate Change is not only real : the impact is going to be first and foremost on the poor and And he wrote on behalf of his children, from Bangladesh, saying that he feared - especially for his And he's pleading with us - this is a message from Bangladesh which we received this morning - Because it's going to have an impact on the poorest and the most vulnerable in the whole World. There are human beings in this World of ours who do not recognise that they are participants in Who do not recognise that they are responsible : responsible to God, responsible to the Creation, There are people so deluded as believe that they are gods, and that they have the right to tyrannise So, avoid the God Delusion. Happiness doesn't come with Accumulation. And above all the action, we must all take NOW is : CUT THE CARBON. That's what Operation Noah says : CUT THE CARBON. Thank you. ================================================================================ [Writer, journalist and activist George Monbiot speaks] The denial of Climate Change has gone through four stages. At first these people sponsored by Exxon - and curiously as we now discover - by the tobacco It was a fraud, a scam, cooked up by an anti-business, anti-American conspiracy. Then they admitted that, OK, Climate Change IS happening. But it's a good thing, not a bad thing. Then they admitted : OK, Climate Change is happening and it's a bad thing. But they said it would cost more to do anything about it than it would cost to live with. Well, that argument has now been blown out of the water [by the Stern Report]. But it is not the final argument. Instantly they've switched over to Denial Number 4 : which was that : OK, Climate Change is And we have here, ladies and gentlemen, yet another manifestation of the "Yellow Peril" : Forgetting perhaps that while the average emission of Carbon Dioxide in the United Kingdom is Forgetting perhaps that in China there are at least as many efforts towards Renewable Energy and other But, it's true : that at the moment, every nation is using every other nation as its excuse for inaction. Everyone is pointing to everyone else to say : it can't be done because of that lot. And that lot are But let me tell you, there are people like me talking to people like you in every country which we are And in every country around the world, there are people saying : if only we can mobilise together, But the deniers of Climate Change are not finished yet. And it is my prediction, I think not a very hard prediction to make, that they are about to move over to And this is to say : OK, Climate Change is happening; it's a bad thing not a good thing; it would But : it is now too late. That is what they're going to throw at us next. And that, potentially, is the most devastating argument of all. Now let me tell you that this argument has been pressaged - the argument that the Exxon-sponsored And I've been astonished and horrified to see how among many of the people I have met as I've been First they were saying, "Well it's not such a big deal. Do we really have to do anything about it ?" And without any transitional stage in between, they have gone over to saying, "It's too late. We can't do And in both cases we see a complete [abdication] of the moral responsibility to take action to prevent And any environmentalist who collaborates in this project of trying to persuade us that it is now too late, Our task is to demonstrate that it is not too late. Now, I believe that I have shown through technological and economic measures how this extraordinary But I have not demonstrated how it [could] be done politically. And the reason that I have not done so is because it is not up to me to demonstrate that, it is up to you. It is up to you to demonstrate it, not through argument and discussion and debate - the time for that is now We know that Climate Change is happening. We know it will be devastating. We know that runaway You must demonstrate this through action, and action alone. The moral responsiblity of everyone who is standing here now is to show that it is not too late, And you do that by mobilisation, mobilisation and mobilisation. It starts today, but it does not end today. It carries on every day of this year, every day of next year, I'm not asking you to give up your job, or your family life, or many of the other things that are important I am asking you to spend the time (well, there are several good reasons for asking it), so I'm asking you To put it right at the top of everybody's agenda and to create an atmosphere in this country that says And anyone who stands in the way of that cut, stands in the way of the last great hope for humanity. That last great hope, ladies and gentlemen, is standing in front of me. Thank you very much. ============================================================================== |
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