"If a low-income country like Ecuador can [choose life over fossil fuel capitalism], how can countries like the US, UK, Canada, or Australia justify their own plans for new fossil fuel extraction?" That is a quote from the article, "A Victory For Life Over Capitalism: How the people of Ecuador beat the oil giants and saved Yasuni National Park." See this link. and this link:
With all the talk about climate justice within Canada (heating oil, etc) it's good to recognize that justice --and climate justice-- mean nothing unless they're global. This article is from New Internationalist magazine: Click here. (This post is created because Facebook is blocking Canadian news.)