Chávez in 2009: Let's not change the climate. Let's change the system!

Published at: 16/12/2024 08:56 AM

“Let's not change the climate. Let's change the system! And as a result, we will begin to save the planet. Capitalism, the destructive development model, is ending life, it threatens to permanently end the human species,” said Commander Hugo Chávez on December 16, 2009 during the celebration of the Summit on Climate Change, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

With his customary irreverence, eloquence and charge of sincerity, the Commander of the Bolivarian Revolution took his turn to speak, once, to the world that the only way to save the planet was socialism.

Chávez referred to the oppression of which the peoples of America have been victims, “what we live in on this planet is an imperial dictatorship, and from here we continue to denounce it. Down with the imperial dictatorship! And may the peoples and democracy and equality live on this planet!!” , said the Commander.

“There is a group of countries that think they are superior to us those in the south, to us in the third world, to us the underdeveloped, or as the great friend Eduardo Galeano says: we the countries hit as if by a train that ran over us in history,” he added.

The phrase Let's not change the climate Let's change the system! , according to Chávez's speech, was given by a group of young people outside the room; “There are a lot of people out there, you know? Of course, they don't fit in this room, a lot of people (...) They are young people concerned, I think with much more reason than we do about the future of the world; most of us here already have the sun on our backs, they have the sun in front of them and they are very worried. Among other powerful slogans are heard: “Don't change the climate, change the system, and I'll take it for ourselves,” emphasized the Commander.

Mazo News Team