The final version of the declaration (which is now up at the site of Klimaforum09) is better than the second draft in several regards. To begin with, the document is slimmer and more readable than the previous one. After what I wrote above (here) I am also especially happy to note that a whole paragraph has been included on the necessity to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and, yes, to take on the military-industrial complex. The latter is now explicitly mentioned in the text! Yet the declaration still does not point out that the WMD must be abolished because of the fatal effects their use could have on the climate; still less does it direct our movement towards local and regional campaigns for unilateral nuclear disarmament, which, by the way, would not be "pacifism", or any other "-ism", but would show elementary respect for life and mother earth. This hole in the text is is a measure of its overall lack of seriousness. It means that the movement for "climate justice" still has to become aware of the fact that WMD are at least as serious a threat aginst the climate as the AGW. (just give a thought about the global "nuclear winter", which probably would be the inevitable consequence even of a regional "nuclear exchange" between any of the states which maintain NW, or have access to the "buttons" which could launch them.)

However, as one who follows the Klimaforum09 only from my home I wish to end this comment with congratulations to you who are in Copenhagen for having produced this common written statement. As a promoter of the initiative "Capodistrias-Spinelli-Europe", I also felt that I want to sign this declaration, and so I have done.

Recommended: Read the Declaration of Klimaforum09 now at http://www.klimaforum09.org/Declaration. You may want to sign it there, too.