Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-05-Speech-4-025-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the Rio+20 Summit (20-22 June 2012) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120705.8.4-025-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-05-Speech-4-026-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:João Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-02-03)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2012-02-07--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we saw the same obstacles and contradictions parade through the Rio Summit as at other summits. The most profound of these contradictions has not always been the most visible, but it is certainly the most decisive. The globally dominant economic and social system has shown itself to be incapable of meeting the most basic needs of millions upon millions of human beings and, at the same time, it consumes and degrades the planet’s resources at a faster rate than the planet’s natural ability to replace them. Breakdown is inevitable. Faced with this situation, some think that it is time to pull a rabbit out of the hat. They call it the ‘green economy’. The concept’s lack of definition and ambiguity have catered to all opportunists, including those who say that they want to save the environment without changing the system that degrades and threatens it, those who say that they want to fight hunger and other social ills without addressing their underlying causes. Genuinely sustainable development based on a sustainable relationship between mankind and nature will not be possible without questioning capitalism’s laws and dogmas, however much they would like to paint it green. We must break away from growth that sacrifices natural resources and the workforce, the creative and transformative energy of human beings, for the growing accumulation of profit and the private appropriation of the social wealth produced. We have to safeguard not only natural resources, but also their democratic enjoyment; defend local production, reducing the size of production and consumption cycles; restrict global free trade, which encourages increased energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions despite their serious economic and social consequences; protect natural terrestrial and marine ecosystems; recover degraded ecosystems, valuing the role they play in carbon cycle regulation; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but through legal means and not through mechanisms that leave these objectives at the whim of market moods. I will finish, Mr President, by saying that the fight for a healthy planet is inseparable from the fight for a fairer world, for the valuation of workers and for a society where the principles of democracy are placed above the laws of the so-called market economy."@en1
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