611. DESPITE THEIR BOLD VOICES AND COURAGEOUS EFFORTS, YOUNG ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT, NAMELY A FAR-SIGHTED, HISTORICAL DEAL.
. –Young activists play the indispensable role of setting the path forward, making
610. IT IS A FAIRYTALE THAT WORLD GOVERNMENTS WILL FIX OUR CLIMATE CRISIS. IT IS UP TO US. (Bill Mc Kibben)
-PLANet B does not exist. (Louis Casado) . Can the mainstream climate movement ready itself
609. IN THE CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IT IS CRUCIAL TO THINK AND NOT ‘LET-ONESELF-BE-THOUGHT’ BY WHAT THE CORRIDORS OF POWER DICTATE. (Gloria Clavero)
. –Most societies marginalize their dissident intellectuals when they deviate from those
608. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ON EARTH TODAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION. HOWEVER, PRIORITIES ARE DETERMINED BY POLITICS. (Suzy Kassem)
. –Human rights activism is to be locally and centrally concerned with repairing our deeply unequal global political economy inevitably passing through reforming national and international governance systems. 1.
607. I PARTICIPATE. YOU PARTICIPATE. HE/SHE PARTICIPATES. WE PARTICIPATE. BUT… THEY DECIDE. (chalkboard in Bolivia)
. -When is participation an instrument for manipulation? (Raff Carmen) 1. The world, and society, can indeed be shaped by us. But it is not
606. TRUSTING IN GOD, YES; BUT ALSO RISING TO FIGHT EVIL. (cardinal Raúl Silva H. referring to the human rights struggles against the Pinochet dictatorship)
. A. Arguments on the trusting side –If God
605. THE CULTIVATION OF IGNORANCE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE ELITES (WHOSE ORDAINED RIGHT IS TO GOVERN WITHOUT POPULAR KNOWLEDGE OR INTERFERENCE) IS A RUNNING THEME THE WORLD OVER. (Walter Lippmann)
. -Give a kid a fish and you feed her/him for a day. Teach her/him to use
604. ECONOMIC THEORIES NEVER HAD ANY PRACTICAL UTILITY (Karl Popper) –LESS SO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
. -Science requires us to constantly think against and challenge our own brains, i.e., distrust the evidence, not adopting the first
603. PLEADING FOR THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH IS PLEADING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE; BOTH GO HAND IN HAND.
. -On October 8, 2021 the U.N. Human Rights Council recognized access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to
602. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: GOALS WITHOUT POLICIES ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ME –AND TO HUMAN RIGHTS.
. The SDGs were set out as aspirations, not as destinations at the end of well-planned voyages –now tragically set back by