Work Products
PDF documents below at end of this page in English and Spanish; First, note regarding use of language; detailed statement of philosophy
Note regarding use of language: due to limited resources, some documents below and elsewhere in this website are published in English while others are published in Spanish. We will make every effort to make the site fully bilingual as soon as possible.
SPANISH: Nota a cerca de utlizacion de idioma: debido a recursos limitados, algunos documentos abajo y en otras partes del sitio web estan publicados en ingles mientras otros en espanol. Haremos todos los esfuerzos posible para hacer este sitio totalmente bilingue tan pronto como posible.
Detailed Statement of Philosophy
There is no better lifesaving alternative than for climate change advesaries to cooperate. Irrespective of and beyond political and economic ideology, together, Environment Las Americas/Bolivia’s work products will continually build a case for the absolute necessity of cooperation among culturally diverse climate change advesaries to acheive the deepest and broadest possible mitigation and adaptation. Foremost on our minds and in our hearts is the health and well being of our brothers and sisters around the globe, the world’s children and future generations. We strongly suspect adaptation to a 4C rise in temperature above preindustrial levels, which the Earth is quickly approaching due to human intervention, is not possible for the vast majority of the human population and must be avoided through a an unprecendented global response.
Environment Las Americas/Bolivia admires and supports the Bolivian government’s intentions and many of its efforts related to climate change justice. Indeed, our organization was among the first to speak out regarding the need for climate change justice education and advocacy in Bolivia, co-leading U.S Embassy, La Paz and Cochabamba-based protests in Bolivia in favor of the U.S. signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 2006. In 2006, we spoke out against the unrecognized climate change debt of the United States and encouraged the Bolivian government to form an intergovernmental coordinating committee on climate change. We were the first in Bolivia to publically show Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and present on it in Bolivia, to a sold-out crowd of 1200 persons and 30 key environmental leaders. In 2009, Environment Las Americas/Bolivia led pre-Copenhagen vigils in front of the U.S. and Chinese Embassies 100 days before Copenhagen.
However, the real world is not like the movie Avatar, in which the heroes–pure indigenous environmentalists–save the planet. In climate change emergency, climate change advesaries must push heartfelt traditional ideologies and even components of their cultures to the side. (Please see Home Page for the Executive Director, Adam Zemans’, April 13, 2010 blog about the real world of climate change not being like an Avatar movie, ). As The Pew Center and The Brookings Institute have reported (2009) in relation to China-U.S. climate change cooperation, the scientific and political facts overwhelmingly demonstrate that there is no better lifesaving alternative than for traditional advesaries to cooperate. For example, if either China or the U.S. alone were to stop carbon emissions increases today, the world would still reach beyond consensus-based climate change danger levels (2C) by 2050 (See publications below for citations).
In the wake of the December 2009 COP 15 at Copenhagen, the urgency of some form of developing and developed country climate change agreement has become even clearer, as has the need for a price on carbon emissions to produce an adequate emergency market signal and the pragmatic necessity for the fairest and best regulated carbon market possible under the horrifying scientific and international political circumstances (climate-induced economic catastrophe likely by the 2020s according to U.S. intelligence and top scientic reporting and the current carbon market concept overwhelmingly politically dominant).
Again, irrespective of and beyond political and economic ideology, together, Environment Las Americas/Bolivia work products will continually build a case for the absolute necessity of cooperation among culturally diverse climate change advesaries to acheive the most pragmatic mitigation and adaptation possible. We believe that neither Capitalism nor Socialism, nor any political economic nor cultural model known to humankind to date, alone, provide the answers that the world must develop within a few years time.
Published Documents in English (in PDF format)
1. Press Release: Hundred Days To Save Human Civilization: Letting The United States And China Know Citizens Of The Americas Are Watching. Cochabamba, Bolivia. August 2009.
2. In-Depth Report: What Price Are The U.S. And China Willing To Pay In The Next 100 Days Before Copenhagen To Stop The Climate Change Tidal Wave From Sinking Civilization? Cochabamba, Bolivia. August 2009.
Published Documents in Spanish (in PDF format)
Nota de Prensa. Dando respuesta a la politica de cambios climaticos del Presidente Evo Morales de Bolivia. Cochabamba, Bolivia. 21 de Abril, 2010.
Presentacion (Presentation). Medicina para la Emergencia del Cambio Climático: La Inmediata Necesidad de Liderazgo y Abogacía Científica en Bolivia. Interciencia, Cochabamba, Bolivia. November 2009.
Nota de Prensa: Cien Días Para Salvar El Mundo! ¿Qué precio pagarían Estados Unidos y China para controlar cambios climáticos antes de que se destruya nuestra Civilización? ¿Qué hacemos los bolivianos?. Cochabamba, Bolivia. August 2009.
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