FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF TERRITORIES AND PEOPLES FROM FOSSIL ENERGY

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The planet is experiencing a severe ecological crisis. The concentration of carbon dioxide-CO2 in the atmosphere is growing more than 3% per year, rather than decreasing by over half as it should. Meanwhile, the communities living in harmony with and caring for nature are being pressured to unbearable extremes.

Para la producción de energía, principalmente para la industria y el transporte, para el desmesurado consumo de materiales y manufacturas provenientes de petróleo, se contamina la atmósfera, se daña los ríos, se destruyen los bosques, se acaba con las bases de subsistencia de comunidades del Sur y se afecta la salud de las personas, los pueblos y la naturaleza.For energy production, mainly for industry and transport, and for the excessive consumption of materials and manufactured goods made from crude oil, the atmosphere is being polluted, rivers damaged, forests destroyed, and so is destroyed the livelihood of communities in the South, affecting the health of individuals, communities and nature.

En el planeta entero, país a país vivimos cada vez con mas fuerza y frecuencia, escasez de agua, crisis energética, crisis por la falta de lluvias, crisis social y violencia.Throughout Throughout the entire planet, from country to country, we are experiencing water shortages, energy crises, crises over lack of rain, social crises, and violence with ever more force and frequency. En este escenario, el tránsito a una civilización pos-petrolera es inevitable. Within this scenario, the transition to a post-oil civilization is inevitable. Sin embargo se dilatan las acciones desde los gobiernos.However However, actions from governments are dilated. Las cumbres internacionales sobre el clima, a pesar de las espectativas, terminan siendo una farsa, pues se imponen las falsas soluciones como son el mercado de carbono yo tecnologías que pueden afectar aún más el ambiente. Despite the expectations, the international summits on climate end up being a farce, for they end up imposing false solutions such as the carbon market and technologies that may further harm the environment.

Los gobiernos deben ser coherentes y entender que es imprescindible avanzar con acuerdos mutuamente consentidos de responsabilidades comunes y diferenciadas que protejan el planeta, su clima, su biodiversidad y su gente.Governments must be coherent and understand that they must move forward on mutually made agreements based on the principles of common and differentiated responsibilities to protect the planet, its climate, its biodiversity, and its people.

Es claro que los esfuerzos más claros frente a los cambios climáticos y en función de otro modelo están en los pueblos y las organizaciones; entre colectivos de hombres y mujeres que alrededor de todo el mundo están comprometidos con la vida y la naturaleza. Estos saberes y esfuerzos, locales, regionales o globales, adquieren más trascendencia cuando se articulan colectivamente.It is clear that the greatest efforts against climate change, and those made in terms of another model, are being made within communities and organizations, amongst groups of women and men around the world who are committed to life and nature. This knowledge and these efforts, locally, regionally or globally, gain more importance when they are collectively articulated.

Nuestras comunidades siguen existiendo, a pesar de que el capitalismo impone un modelo individualista basado en las teorías de la competencia.Our communities continue to exist, despite the fact that capitalism imposes an individualistic model based on the theories of competition rather than solidarity. Las comunidades se expresan con prácticas que corresponde reforzarlas y replicarlas. These communities express themselves in ways that should be practiced, strengthened and replicated.

Nuestras organizaciones necesitan fortalecer y ratificar sus convicciones con la certeza de que es posible un cambio, superando el pragmatismo que conduce casi siempre a renuncias debilitantes.Our organizations must strengthen and ratify their convictions with the certainty that change is possible, beyond the pragmatism that almost invariably leads to debilitating resignations.