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Billionaire or Community Solutions to Climate Chaos?

Submitted by x332349 on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 00:00

By Million Belay, Jill Mangaliman, Silvia Ribeiro, and Tom Goldtooth - Community Alliance for Global Justice, March 3, 2021

On February 16, one of the richest men on earth, Bill Gates, released his vision of climate solutions in his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”. Climate change is one of the crises used by Gates and his Foundation to justify urgent, technocratic “solutions” for altering food systems around the world.

In response, we aim to amplify the work of social movements organizing in Seattle and around the world for Climate Justice. To counter top-down, billionaire expertise as the means of solving our world’s most pressing issues, our panelists will present an alternative approach centered on Food Sovereignty, with communities leading the way to a climate just future.

SPEAKERS:

  • Million Belay, Coordinator of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
  • Jill Mangaliman, Executive Director of Got Green
  • Silvia Ribeiro, Latin America Director of ETC Group
  • Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network

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