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On Saturday, we filmed and reported live from a protest, blessing and press conference by indigenous activists on behalf of over 150 organizations in Paris during the COP21 U.N. climate summit. One group at Saturday’s action, the Sarayaku, brought a canoe over 6,000 miles from the Amazon to Paris Tuesday, carrying a message of climate justice. 

Indigenous women presented a treaty to protect Mother Earth, and a flotilla launched to demand indigenous solutions to climate change. The protest came the same day negotiators announced they had reached a draft deal on voluntary cuts to carbon emissions at the climate summit.

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“We Do Not Want to Die in Silence”: Indigenous People Demand Rights as Draft Climate Deal Reached

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Facing a ban on public demonstrations under France’s new state of emergency, climate activists were forced to cancel a mass march expected to draw 200,000 people Sunday. Instead, activists formed a human chain and symbolically left shoes where the march would have taken place. Afterward, hundreds marched despite the ban, protesting the new limits on public political expression. These protesters faced tear gas, sound cannons, pepper spray and batons from Paris police. Democracy Now! is broadcasting live from Paris for the next two weeks: Tune in at democracynow.org.

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As the carbon dioxide in the air hits 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, some are arguing that the best way to address climate change is to use the controversial practice of geoengineering — the deliberate altering of the Earth’s ecological and climate systems to counter the effects of global warming. Democracy Now! speaks with Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra Australia, about the pros and cons of geoengineering and some proposed projects in his new book, “Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering.” Hamilton points to an example, cautioning, “There is virtually no regulation of geoengineering. And when it comes to sulfate aerosol spraying there is nothing to prevent a government, any government, or even a corporation, or a billionaire with a messiah complex from launching a program of taking control of the Earth’s weather by installing this kind of solar shield. So the absence of governance, the absence of regulation and the exclusion of people particularly from poor and vulnerable countries is a very serious concern.”

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Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million. The 400 ppm threshold has been an important marker in U.N. climate change negotiations, widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen human-caused global warming. Democracy Now! speaks to leading climate scientist Michael Mann, author of the recent book, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.” Mann warns, “If we continue to burn fossil fuels at accelerating rates, if we continue with business as usual, we will cross the 450 parts per million limit in a matter of maybe a couple of decades. With that amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, we commit to what could truly be described as dangerous and irreversible changes in our climate. … Mitigating climate change is in fact a planetary insurance policy.

When asked about the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, he adds: "We’re actually simply developing more and more of the available fossil fuel reserves at a time when we have to be ramping them down.”

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