People's movements

Innumerable observers have noted that the so-called developed world accounts for a disproportionate share of the world’s resources. Yet even those of us who find global inequality troubling and ultimately indefensible hesitate to raise the subject. Unlike George Orwell, that is, whose support for war-time rationing revealed his motivations towards justice at a global scale, writes Bruce Robbins.

例年の国連気候変動会議（COP23）のために世界の指導者たちがドイツのボンに集まる数日前の土曜日に、世界中からの数万人の活動家が街頭に出て、石炭の廃止を要求し、ドナルド・トランプ米大統領の気候変動否定を非難し、可能な限り迅速に100％再生可能エネルギーに移行する必要性を強調することによって、一連の計画された行動を開始しました。

Just days before world leaders are set to gather in Bonn, Germany for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23), tens of thousands of activists from across the globe kicked off a series of planned actions on Saturday by taking to the streets to demand an end to coal, denounce U.S. President Donald Trump's climate denial, and highlight the necessity of moving toward 100 percent renewable energy as quickly as possible.

When companies don’t pay their fair share of tax, it hits the world’s poorest people the hardest – depriving their governments of money that could be spent on vital services like hospitals, schools and clean water. Without these, people in developing countries simply don’t have a fair chance of overcoming poverty. Together we can do something about it.