EXCERPTS: According to reports, the United Nations sponsored the four-day event, which was attended by representatives from 130 environmentalist groups. While the end result was a lengthy report providing an overview of the alliance’s proposals, the basic message can be summed up in two words: end capitalism.


Fellowship of the Minds provided its analysis of the Spanish language document published after the meeting ended July 18. According to the site, there are several disturbing passages that reveal just how radical many within the ‘green’ movement have become.



“This global crisis is exacerbated by unsustainable practices of exploitation and consumption by the developed countries and the elites of the developing countries,” the report suggests.



Overall, the consensus reads as an anti-capitalist manifesto in line with the communist leadership of the nation in which the summit took place.


The Margarita Declaration on Climate Change — so named because the meeting took place on Venezuela’s Margarita Island — called for drastic and unsustainable cuts to the energy-producing resources used by industrialized nations.


“According to scientific evidence,” the document alleges, “in order not to exceed 1.5 degrees increase of temperature, it becomes necessary not to produce 80% of the fossil fuel reserves known.”


Certain passages leave no ambiguity regarding the declaration’s socialist undertones.



“The structural causes for climate change are linked to the current capitalist hegemonic system,” the groups determined. “Fighting the climate change involves changing the system.”




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