One of the great mistakes of the environment movement was to frame the climate debate as one about environment

Принципиально важные слова борца за права человека и экоактивиста, последние шесть лет возглавлявшего Greenpeace.

...The green movement could learn a lot from the struggle against apartheid. “One of the great mistakes of the environment movement was to frame the climate debate as one about environment...

..."The struggle has never been about saving the planet. The planet does not need saving. If we warm it up to the point where we cannot exist we’ll be gone, the planet will still be here,” he says. “It will be bruised and scarred by humanity’s crimes on it but actually once human beings become extinct, the forests will recover, the oceans will replenish. This struggle is fundamentally about whether humanity can fashion a way of mutually coexisting with nature and protecting our children and their children’s future"...

...“Imagine we are the last people on the planet and climate change has happened and we decided to write up the history of humanity and put it in a capsule so that if human life emerges again they won’t make the same mistakes, one of the things we would probably conclude is that those who historically deem themselves to be civilised and need to civilise the uncivilised - that is the indigenous peoples of the world - we would conclude that the people who were most civilised were the indigenous peoples of the world"...

Полное интервью Куми Найду в Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/31...