Dr Michael Collins is a Lecturer
in British History
in the Department of History, and Director for Institutional Change and
Democracy at the
Global Governance Institute (GGI) University College London (UCL).
As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and
governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM
in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important
global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment,
democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.
This is tatamount to a rejection of
democracy as a form of human
governance on grounds of being intrinsically inadequate to counter the
global warming evidence GISS claims to be there,
in their US data.