The system that governs our world is sick

A HaltonDoesCopenhagen Blog Entry

Yesterday we spoke to a couple of representatives of the developing world who echoed what we have been hearing all around the Bella Centre – that the global south is not going to be bullied into an unfair deal. Consideration of the developing world continues to be crucial for a global deal to happen and is something that is going to have to be addressed as world leaders begin to fly in for the final day(s) of the conference.

In this first video Wahu Kaara from Kenya (a rep for the Peoples Movement for Climate Change) has some strong words for Canada, not unlike what we are hearing all around the conference. Too many Canadians think we are flying under the radar on this issue, but people all around the world are aware of our foot-dragging.

In this second video Philo Morris from the Medical Mission Sisterhood International discusses why she has come all the way out here from India and what her organization hopes to achieve. She notes that ‘the system that governs our world is also sick’ – which struck a cord with us. An organization dedicated to health has expanded their goals for human health to the planet and even our systems of government.