This is COP 22. For us, it’s like Catch-22, because, either direction, Africa is going to lose. The rich countries are forcing the process to go in the direction of polluters continuing to pollute without stopping pollution. And if polluters continue to pollute, no matter how much money anybody makes from carbon trading, from carbon offsetting, like reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, and all the other marks of marketed environmentalism, it’s not going to add up to actually reducing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, which means the temperature is going to rise.
Nnimmo Bassey, leading Nigerian environmentalist and director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, speaking at the COP 22 U.N. climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco. Read the full story here.