Naomi Klein gives 'Angry Mermaid Award' in Copenhagen

From the KlimaForum09 (the People's Summit in Copenhagen) - Naomi Klein presents the Angry Mermaid award, set up to recognise the perverse role of corporate lobbyists, and highlight those business groups and companies that have made the greatest effort to sabotage the climate talks, and other climate measures, while promoting, often profitable, false solutions.

From http://www.angrymermaid.org/:

Out of the eight nominees that were put forward for public vote on this website and at the Klimaforum in Copenhagen, Monsanto emerged as the winner of the Angry Mermaid Award 2009 with 37 per cent of the ten thousand votes that were cast.

Oil giant Shell ended second place (18 per cent), for lobbying to sabotage effective action on climate change, followed by the American Petroleum Institute (14 per cent).

Agriculture giant Monsanto was nominated for promoting its genetically modified (GM) crops as a solution to climate change and pushing for its crops to be used as biofuels. The expansion of GM soy in Latin America is contributing to major deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) of which Monsanto is a member, is helping to promote the companys cause by allowing GM soy to be labelled as responsible. Monsanto also wants GM soy to be funded under the Clean Development Mechanism.

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• Naomi Klein
• COP15
• Copenhagen
• climate change
• Angry Mermaid Award
• KlimaForum09

[cyber1zen]

Thank you, Naomi Klein, global warming is a serious, serious problem.

Very little money is to be made with alternative energy. Tons and tons of money is made by energy companies because they just dig up the treasure chest in the earth's back yard (and they fight having to fix up the turf they tore up, too).

[terraalert]

I missed this when it first came out. Awesome!

[bobjon38]

Supporting climate change is also profitable. For the people who paid for these guys to be there.

Don't be fooled, AGW is a MYTH!!!!

[bobjon38]

Well the fake boobs really convinced me that the ice sheets AREN'T growing dispite the scientific evidence that they ARE growing.

The fake viginas helped as well.