SKY SELLERS’ SUMMIT
What’s the deal with Governor Jerry Brown’s climate summit in September?
From September 12-14, 2018, Governor Brown of California will host the Global Climate Action Summit i in San Francisco. The Summit supports the United Nations Paris Climate Change Agreement. ii Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, the Paris Climate Change Agreement is not all it’s cracked up to be. It contains no mandatory emissions cuts and promotes false solutions to climate change like carbon trading. iii
California’s Carbon Market
California is the world’s fifth largest economy,viii which includes its carbon market or “cap-and-trade.” If California joins its carbon market and economy with China, this alliance will rival the United States as the world’s biggest superpower. The real agenda of the Global Climate Action Summit is not “climate action,” but globalization based on the eventual linking of California’s and China’s carbon markets and more fossil fuel exploitation.
The Global Carbon Market – Sky Sellers’ Wall Street
The race is on to see who will control the emerging global carbon market. The air we breathe is already being bought and sold on stock markets all over the world.ix But who controls the emerging global carbon market will also control the so-called Green Economy. The Green Economy is the next chapter of capitalism.x Based on profits from “natural capital” and “ecosystem goods and services,” the Green Economy sells the Sacred and Mother Earth. This is why it is crucial to oppose Governor Jerry Brown’s Sky Sellers’ Summit.
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