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December 8, 2009

Activists Open Alternative Climate Summit
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The news follows the opening day of the global climate summit here in
Copenhagen. On Monday, environmental activists opened a parallel summit
billed as the global civil society counterpart to the climate talks.
Addressing the Klimaforum’s opening session, the Canadian author and
activist Naomi Klein called for climate reparations to developing
nations and stressed the urgency of a grassroots environmental movement.

Naomi Klein: “We have to somehow offset the carbon we emitted coming
here. How do we do it? We do it, or we try to do it, by using this
incredible space, this historic convergence, to build the kind of global
mass movement that will never ever let our leaders get away with this
kind of criminal negligence again. That is our task, my friends. It is
awesome and fearsome. Think of it as the mother of all carbon offsets.”



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