Share The World’s Resources and the British Film Institute screened the UK premier of ‘The End of Poverty?’ on 12th December 2009 at BFI Southbank, London. The film was followed by a lively panel discussion and Q&A session with leading voices on world poverty.
Dealing with the twin spectres of peak oil and climate change
requires a radical rethink of our fossil-fuel intensive food system. Three
fundamental principles should underpin any approach to food security:
resilience, resolarisation and relocalisation, argues Jonathon Porritt.
While climate change is an environmental problem, the way we
deal with it will have a massive impact on economic development and inequality
on a global scale. A transfer of wealth and power from the global North to
South is essential to averting climate catastrophe, argues Tim Jones.
Despite worldwide pressure to reduce carbon emissions, the World Bank continues to finance coal projects to the detriment of renewable energy - a failure of great magnitude for an institution that is supposed to lead by example, not follow the path of least resistance, says Phil Radford.
As international commerce expands, the costs are often borne by people at the bottom of the economic ladder. If they have to cross borders in search of their livelihood, trade can become a driver of increased migration, explains Peter Costantini.
The escalation of the United States African Command underlines
a troubling commitment to an approach based on the use of military force, one
entirely at the expense of promoting sustainable economic development and
democracy, argues Daniel Volman.
At the World Food Summit held in Rome during November 2009, Share The World's Resources interviewed civil society representatives on their views surrounding the future direction of food and agriculture policy. By STWR.
Just as the 1999 Seattle protests against the WTO launched
the global justice movement onto the world stage, Copenhagen may reveal a
global civil society that has developed beyond the politics of resistance into
a truly diverse, forward-looking force for change, writes Anna White.
Despite the continuing instability of the current economic
system, the belief that neoliberal capitalism is indestructible has not yet
been abandoned. Perhaps only a more serious crisis will overturn this erroneous
idea upon which so many policies are based, says John Gray.
Global warming is a wake up call to the current deficiency in our political and social institutions. To resolve the climate crisis we must put aside short-sighted nationalistic policies and forge a global managerial institution to coordinate the resources of all nations, says Fekri Hassan.
