World People's Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Kristen Taylor ( Bio  /   Posts )  |  Friday, April 23, 2010 UTC

PopTech photographer Kris Krüg documented the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth this week in Cochabamba, Bolivia:
(Click the arrow below to play the image slideshow.)

GRITtv interviewed some conference attendees at this event intended to be an alternative to the Copenhagen climate talks in December 2009:

And as part of Earth Week and in support of his travel to Bolivia, Kris auctioned off a photograph donated by PopTech speaker Chris Jordan, who highlights the consequences of consumerism in his work; you can watch Chris’s 2009 PopTech talk on plastics and see the startling photographs he took in the Midway Atoll:

You can also watch Chris’s 2007 PopTech talk on his “Running the Numbers” series here.

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