From the Fresh Air Center.

Hello guys, I'm sure you might have already heard some news of our struggle in Copenhagen. It is quite nice, since we managed to start working at the Fresh Air Center and they have a lot of resources for bloggers to keep working without furthers issues. In one particular moment, we shot a video for the Indian Youth Climate Network, discussing some topics related to climate change really briefly. But the most interest part certainly was the visit of professionals of many media outlets, such as The Huffington Post Green editor Katherine Goldstein, NY Times Andy Revkin and the journalism for Guardian George Monbiot, as well as Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International. The most awaited person though, was Naomi Klein, a "Canadian journalist, author and activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization".

Kumi Naidoo, said (quite briefly) at the beginning of his speech today in Fresh Air Center that there are still 48 hours left before any agreement is set in Copenhagen. Two days away from the end of the conference, lots of people still have hope, but the majority is facing the reality of a deal that will certainly not to be compared to the demands and needs of the developing nations and the world population. Somehow there is still hope towards COP15.

"This is the moment when environmentalism became a social justice movement."

Nevertheless, I prefer to stick with Naomi Klein's thought: "no deal is better than a bad deal". Naomi has a very passionate speech and she really knows how to get the big picture of climate change, addressing the topic as an issue that goes beyond politics. Of course we all know that, but maybe what Naomi wants to say is that we have to keep reminding ourselves that if politicians don't do a good job it is partially because the population needs to engage in the fight against climate change even fiercer to reach their ears.

"The negotiations are falling apart" she says. Indeed, they are. We've reached a point in which there is no way you can suceed in having useful information from the traditional media. All we got is on the demonstrations, people being arrested, the walk out of the African delegation, and the scandals involving the Danish Text, and the poor number given by the negotiators from the developed world when it comes to financing.

That is why no deal is better than a bad deal. If we have a bad deal, a legally binding one, we'll be stuck to that deal for a long time and our actions of adapting the cities, as well as encouraging energy efficiency, recycling, etc are going to die out. One thing that Naomi mentioned really caught my attention though. She said if a deal comes out of the cop15, it is mostly because of the struggle of developing countries, but that is not quite something that we should be celebrating. The reason for this lies in the fact that the developed nations are actually at fault, trying desperately to push a weak and poor agreement to the rest of the world.

It is worth discussing this conferece anymore since it is all heading towards failure? Some have faith it is going to have a good outcome, some don't, others are waiting for Obama to save the COP15, and others are just on the line, struggling to be heard and to take part at this huge event: one that will certainly mark its place in history as the time we learned we need to make the best of ourselves, regardless of what politicians say and do.

Edit December 12nd, 2009: Added the video featuring Naomi Klein's speech:

Naomi Klein's speech video by theaycc.