Capitalism’s object is to maximise profits. Mass species
extinction and climate change are related to capitalism’s methods for
manufacturing. The expansion of factory farm animals has resulted in the annihilation
of insects through pesticide which has led in turn to the annihilation of the
species that feed on them. Capitalist industries put greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere
Climate change harm is no longer a projection for the
future. In Africa, starvation is already prevalent in many places where drought
has killed as much as 90 percent of people’s livestock and in several countries
already, half of their children are chronically malnourished. In Africa,
millions of people were impacted by a devastating cyclone that the UN said
could well be ranked as one of the worst weather-related disasters to ever
strike the southern hemisphere. Cyclone Idai slammed into Mozambique, then
Zimbabwe and Malawi, leaving nearly 3 million people in need of aid. In Italy,
extreme weather events driven by climate disruption have caused a 57 percent
drop in olive harvests, causing that country to be dependent upon imports in
April to bridge the gap. The over-fishing and pollution of the oceans, de-forestation,
the depletion of soil fertility, and the poisoning of Earth’s air and water, are all
driving us to disaster.
On March 15, more than 1.4 million students around the world
took part in school strikes aimed at spurring action on the environmental
crises. School-student walked out in 2,233 cities across 128 countries, and
further strikes are planned for April 12. If governments won’t listen, perhaps
they will listen to the children.
From April 15th to April 22nd, Extinction
Rebellion, another ecological movement begun in the U.K.,
is now calling for global solidarity and will take direct peaceful disobedience
actions to demand climate justice and oppose the impending ecological collapse.
Regardless to how sympathetic we are to those energised movements,
any hope that exists to create a stable world of the future based upon steady-state
zero-growth economics rests with the construction of a socialist society.
For
how much longer will men and women have to struggle to survive in a society of
potential abundance? Why devote resources to the killing-machine and the waste of commerce when we have reached the point where
life could be made happy for us all?
We do not want “decent” politicians, benevolent and forever smiling reformers, who are promising to remove the symptoms of the
capitalist malady while leaving the disease intact. No longer should the
majority be deceived by the capitalists’ conception of socialism. Their
“socialism” is a variant of capitalism. Socialism is not a humane brand of
capitalism; it cannot exist within the social confines of the present system.
We shall have either capitalism or socialism. If we have socialism, then the
entire structure of this system must go. What we want is a society of
human equality. The capitalists must be dispossessed, stripped of their
ownership and control.
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