Why I oppose the G20: Anna Pinto from Imphal, India, and calling for real solutions

Anna Pinto is from an indigenous peoples organization based in the Northeast region of India. She is visiting traveled to Pittsburgh this week in order to discuss climate justice and alternatives to G20 policies with those who envision a better world beyond, and without, the G20.

My family suffers because of contaminated and poor water quality. My own family, in my home, says Pinto. Water shortages, flash floods, damage to the natural drainage system, which exacerbates floods, food shortages that are caused both by the floods and by the water scarcity My own family is impacted.

Pinto says that the G20 is part of the problem, and has helped deepen the global economic crisis and the climate crisis, but the people will be the solutions.

My country is part of the G20, and so is the US. There are decisions being made here that impact the lives of all the people in my country, because of economic policies and trade agreements that the G20 is going to set, because of the violence that is going to accompany these economic decision and to force them on people who dont want these things to happen in their lands.

Pinto proposes instead that we re-structure our global economy that treats civilization as part of our living earth as our home, rather than a commodity to be traded. She supports community-born solutions that put a premium on people and planet, rather than decisions made by the G20.

These decisions are going to impact really substantially and negatively on the climate, on biodiversity, and on the futures of our children, she says.

Pinto envisions a world in which every person has a say in how local, living economies run. She feels that the kind of development we need is developing into a world that is more ecologically sound.

Ironically, though a lot of vested interests put development and climate interests in opposition, says Pinto. In fact, they are not. Good development decisions are good climate and biodiversity decisions.

Anna Pinto shares her story as part of the Global Justice Ecology Project www.globaljusticeecology.org.

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[Indian2207]

She doen't even know how to answer to the right question. I wonder how she can represent an organisation???

[skinnychef]

Anna Pinto rocks!

Thanks for posting!

xoxox

skinnychef