A movement of ideas

The second response comes in the change, the failures of international e conomic form of the development of social justice groups development and the reasons states fail. [...] For example, a • The growing discrepancy between rich and multi-country mass movement called the World poor in the world Social Forum (WSF) was created in 2001 in direct • The destruction of habitat, loss of agricultural response to the World Economic Forum held land and clean water and threats to the world’s in Davos, Switzerland. [...] The participants at the oceans World Economic Forum are mainly multi-national corpora tion executives and academic leaders • The impacts of global warming and the loom- meeting to discuss solutions to economic issues ing destruction of the Arctic ice cap and to further the aims of neo-liberalism. [...] The • The transition from oil and natural gas to more differences between the approaches of Northern sustainable energy forms.1 social movements and the World Social Forum are A Movement of Ideas: The World Social Forum, is it a Model for Political Change? [...] The growing gap between the rich and the poor has the potential to lead to the same The first stress discussed in The Upside of Down consequences as that of population change.