NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER NO 32 – CLIMATE JUSTICE

Oh! Oh! Nature mourns, Humanity perishes! Why? Seasons have changed Now unpredictable and unreliable! Hotter, drier and shorter! Winds and storms harsher and destructive Mother Earth mourns, the land is barren. Women, men and children, plants and animals perish!

Capitalist industrial agriculture, what have you done? Everywhere, Mother Earth crumbles As toxics and harmful GMO seeds swell her belly. Heavy machines trample her belly Their dark plumes polluting the sky, A new baby, Climate Change, is conceived and born!

Oh! What is all this? Ecological niches shrink Biodiversity fast disappears Greater uncertainty hovers everywhere Heightened risks for us the food producers Traditional agriculture knowledge is fast eroding What and who shall save us?

Climate change knows no peace, Hungers only for destruction! Greed for profits feeds him! Extreme, extreme, extreme weather phenomena are your fruits! Environmental and humanitarian disasters! Floods, droughts, landslides, diseases! Humanity cries: No Food! Nature cries: Inhabitable! Inhabitable!

Is there a remedy? Yes but we hear only false solutions! Free Markets, REDD, Climate Smart agriculture, Green economy, Agrofuels, Carbon trading, land grabbing, more industrial farming, Massive use of herbicides, inorganic fertilizers and More GMOs!

Oh Lord! All to grow climate change! Why? Profits! Profits! More profits! Cries Capitalism, his father!

But hope looms in the horizon Food sovereignty, our hope! Comes to restore social justice to humanity, Ecological sustainability to nature Biodiversity and cultural diversity to all peoples of Mother Earth! Arise ye peoples, women and men, the landless, peasants, indigenous farmers, forest and fisherfolks, Let your hope be heard in all the corners of the earth!

Peasant Agroecology for Climate Justice NOW! Globalise Struggle! Globalise Hope!

_ZIMBABWEAN PEASANT MOVEMENT_ -------------------------

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