Strike! for Climate Action campaign Here you can read about why we need an International General Strike on Climate Change on Dec 11th in solidarity with the planned protests (Dec 12th) during the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009 http://climatestrike.wordpress.com/ More: TECHNOFIXES? http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3126 The debate on climate change is surrounded by hype and vested interests. Technologies are being considered not for their effectiveness but for their profitability. Some proposed solutions would actually lead to an increase in emissions. Many would bring about great social injustice. Beyond that, the promise of a future technofix is being used as a stalling tactic by those who want to keep on burning fossil fuels. This report investigates the large scale technologies that corporations and governments are putting on the table, including hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, agrofuels, electricity from nuclear, solar and wind, as well as a range of ideas to reflect the sun’s energy or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It finds what works, what doesn’t, the present state of these industries and where they’re heading. It explains why, even though many of the technologies do work, the corporate-capitalist model cannot deploy them effectively, and it goes in search of more realistic and socially just solutions.

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