Pubblichiamo il documento finale uscito dai seminari e dall'assemblea finale sui cambiamenti climatici e sulle questioni ambientali del European Social forum di Istanbul

System change, not climate change!
A just transition towards a good life for all
The newspapers may speak of financial and economic crises, but when
we look around ourselves, we don’t see derivates and financial markets –
what we see is the destruction of communities, of our social and natural
environments, of our relations to each other. What we see is capitalism
destroying us. Against this destruction, and the austerity that follows
in its wake, people are resisting, people are fighting back, people are
beginning to create the new worlds we know to be necessary: from Ghana
to Greece, from Copenhagen to Cochabamba, from Bangkok to Brussels.
We from climate and social justice movements gathered at the European
Social Forum in Istanbul, are a part of and inspired by these global
processes of resistance and creation, but also realise that we need to fight
where we stand: to create another world, we also need to create another
Europe and tear down the walls of the fortress that surround it.
Against those who try to create divisions between social and ecological
justice, we assert that they do not contradict each other. They are and
have to be complementary. Our vision is of a good life for all, not a
nightmare of authoritarian eco-austerity.