Patrick Bond on Why the World Has Forgotten About Climate Change (Video)
In an analysis of the pathetic prevarications that plagued COP17, Patrick Bond spoke to Paul Jay of The Real News about the lack of urgency around discussions on climate change. As Jay notes in his introduction, the world has forgotten about climate change – Barack Obama hasn’t mentioned the word in a year and the media has tired of the debate.
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. So the climate change conference in Durban is over. And what happened to the urgency about dealing with climate change? You sure wouldn’t have seen it, given what came out of Durban, and you certainly don’t see it when you look at the public policy coming out of North America, certainly out of Russia, Japan, more or less out of Europe. If you look at the media just only two, three years ago, we were being told things were almost apocalyptic. The media itself has lost almost complete interest in the climate change debate. And certainly in Washington there is no debate about what to do about climate change, certainly not in Congress or to do with the White House. Barack Obama doesn’t seem to have mentioned the words climate change in at least a year, if not more. Now joining us to talk about why all this might be happening is Patrick Bond. Patrick is the director of the Centre for Civil Society in South Africa. He’s a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. And he’s also the author of the recently released books The Politics of Climate Change and Durban’s Climate Gamble. Thanks for joining us, Patrick.
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- Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below by Patrick Bond
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EAN: 9781869142216
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- Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society edited by Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada, Graham Erion
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