About
Climate Justice Taranaki is a community group dedicated to justice, resistance, education and positive actions in the front line of climate change. We are based in Taranaki, the southwest corner of New Zealand’s north island.
Since the end of 2010, we have focused our work on educating the public about the extent and impacts of the massive oil and gas expansion in Taranaki. We rally community support to resist all new onshore and offshore drilling in Taranaki, in particular the use of the highly risky technique – hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
We advocate for a clean energy future and call on the government, companies and communities to phase out investments and dependence on all non-renewable energy.
Our vision is a world that values resource conservation and efficiency, renewable energy and development practices that promote justice for the common people, our future generations and planet earth.
Check out Clean Country Coalition website.
Join our facebook group Stop the Drilling in Taranaki to share up to date information and connect with like minded people.
Day of Action rally in New Plymouth, 20 April 2011.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein.
What is Climate Justice?
The Global Ecology Project describes climate justice as:
“The understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and the global poor, as well as biodiversity and intact ecosystems.
“Indigenous Peoples, peasant communities, fisherfolk, and especially women in these communities, have been able to live harmoniously and sustainably with the Earth for millennia. They are now not only the most affected by climate change, but also the most affected by its false solutions, such as agrofuels, mega-dams, genetic modification, tree plantations and carbon offset schemes.
“Instead of market-based climate mitigation schemes, the sustainable practices of these peoples and communities should be seen as offering the real solutions to climate change.
“Climate justice will never come from corporations or from schemes based on the market, because the market is what got us into this crisis in the first place.
“Climate justice is the understanding that we will not be able to stop climate change if we don’t change the neo-liberal, corporate-based economy which stops us from achieving sustainable societies. It is the understanding that corporate globalisation must be stopped.”
In other words:
we need community-led SYSTEM CHANGE not CLIMATE CHANGE!
For more information and ideas, download Climate Justice Kit (2MB pdf) from Friends of the Earth, Sydney .
