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May 10, 2010

Evo Morales Discusses Climate Change with Ban Ki-Moon
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Bolivian President Evo Morales met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Friday to discuss climate change. The meeting came two weeks after the
close of the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights
of Mother Earth in Cochabamba.
At a news conference, Morales said the voices of civil society and
indigenous peoples must be heard in the international climate talks.

Bolivian President Evo Morales: “For Bolivians and for indigenous
peoples, the idea is to live well. And this term ‘living well’ is
important, as opposed to ‘living better’—living well. Capitalism, to
live better, pillages resources in an unbridled manner, exploits the
children of Mother Earth, which are the human beings, destroys nature,
squandering. It causes so much damage to humanity. Hence the debate is
on the structural causes of global warming.”



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