| Time for an update on all of the nothing that's happening in Cancun right now. My recommendation for the delegates there: Skip the meetings and go SCUBA diving in the ocean instead, to make sure you see all of the beautiful marine life that won't be around much longer. To learn the story behind the scenes, check out the Guardian's account of the Wikileaks cables, which show how the U.S. pressured other nations to agree to the Copenhagen accord, one which won't solve the climate crisis. I love how they refer to Bolivia as an "unhelpful" nation for wanting to truly cut global emissions and limit the average global temperature increase. Yes, Bolivia, it is quite "unhelpful" that you don't want the Altiplano, where the majority of your population resides, to turn into a desert.
Meanwhile, caravans of some 4000 pissed off Mexican farmers are making their way to Cancun:
This series of mobilizations seeks to publicize the grave conditions of social and environmental deterioration found in the cities, communities and towns of Mexico, due to the politics of privatization of public goods, the impunity with which industries operate with respect to environmental regulations and to the violations of the social and labor laws of the citizens.
The caravans have noted the serious pollution of the rivers in the country. It's known that sixty percent of the groundwater and watersheds are contaminated; seventy percent of the soil has some form of erosion and the contamination of transgenic corn is present in fifteen states of the republic, to mention only the most dramatic cases.
The mask of the government trying to appear as an active defender of nature and preoccupied with the climate crises is deteriorating with the advance of the caravans.
I encourage you to read the article, which goes into some devastating details about the environmental problems in Mexico that this caravan is highlighting as it makes its way to Cancun.
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