00:00Welcome back.
00:10In Brazil, the complaints about the role of countries responsible for pollution during
00:15COP30 also extended to the impact of imperialism.
00:18Our team explains more in the following report.
00:21It is estimated that militaries are responsible for 5.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
00:33If they were a country, they would have the fourth largest carbon footprint in the world.
00:37This does not include emissions from reconstruction and caused wildfires.
00:44If the men who make war were here at this COP, they would realize that it is much cheaper
00:58to spend $1 trillion and $300 billion than to spend $2 trillion and $700 billion to wage
01:03war, as they did last year.
01:09The US the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases is the great absentee at COP30 and also
01:19a central actor due to the genocide in Palestine and the military threat in the Caribbean Sea.
01:26Members of the Sumed Flotilla, who attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, were present
01:32at the COP to make it clear that environmentalism and the fight against imperialism go hand in
01:37hand.
01:38The military threat exists because they are after Venezuela's oil and Colombia's strategic
01:44minerals for the energy transition.
01:46We used to have a regulated liberal capitalism that exploited resources, but now we are moving
01:51toward an authoritarian military capitalism, and I believe we need to analyze this transition
01:56very carefully.
01:57They are not seeing culture, people, ecological diversity, or life in us.
02:02They only see resources to exploit.
02:04The debts of developing or underdeveloped countries to international organizations such as the IMF,
02:14or the World Bank, also hinder the development of their economies and climate agendas, especially
02:19in situations of economic blockades like those also promoted by the United States.
02:25the United States.
02:26Any effort related to climate financing must be unconditional, inclusive, and independent
02:31of ideologies or alternative political systems.
02:35It should not be used as a mechanism to subjugate those who have challenged the dominant ideological
02:40hegemony, nor should it discriminate against or exclude certain countries from the international
02:45financial system.
02:52At COP30, some warn that the protection of the Amazon and the development of its peoples cannot be considered
02:58under colonial regimes.
03:00Right now, in French Guayana, all the decisions come from Europe, come from France.
03:06We have no power of decision.
03:09And everything who's decided in France don't match with the reality of French Guayana.
03:16So, we don't recognize ourselves in the decision of France.
03:23So, that's it.
03:24We ask for, we emancipate our country for our independence, because we know that we alone
03:35could decide for ourselves and get the right decision.
03:38There is no time in the face of climate collapse, nor in the face of military threats to sides
03:46of the same coin for those who defend life, and find neither consensus nor reaction from
03:51global leaders in the halls of the COP.
03:54Ignacio Lemus and Julian Assif, for TELESUR.
