Evo Morales

People鈥檚 climate summit challenges Copenhagen, Cancun

鈥淐apitalism is the number one enemy of humanity鈥, Bolivian President Evo Morales said in his closing speech to the World People鈥檚 Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held on April 19-22 in Cochabamba. 鈥淚t turns everything into merchandise, it seeks continual expansion. The system needs to be changed.鈥 More than 35,000 people attended the summit, organised by the Bolivian government in response to the challenge of climate change after rich nations refused to allow an agreement for serious action at the December United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen.

Morales tells summit: capitalism biggest threat to Earth

COCHABAMBA: Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma condemned the capitalist system in the opening session of the 1st World Conference of the Peoples on Climatic Change on April 20. Morales, in his April 20 intervention in the inauguration, stated that capitalism is the main enemy of the Earth, only looking for profits, to the detriment of nature, and that capitalism is a bridge for asymmetries and inequality.