Monday, September 16, 2019

Saving the World: No time to lose.

Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist, Prof Sir David King says. He's been scared by the number of extreme events, and he called for the UK to advance its climate targets by 10 years. He explained:
It’s appropriate to be scared. We predicted temperatures would rise, but we didn’t foresee these sorts of extreme events we’re getting so soon.”
The physicist Prof Jo Haigh from Imperial College London said: “David King is right to be scared – I’m scared too.We do the analysis, we think what’s going to happen, then publish in a very scientific way. Then we have a human response to that… and it is scary.”

We are the last generation that can change the course of climate change, and we are the first generation that then has to live with the consequences,” former UN chief Ban Ki-moon said, “Delay and pay, or plan and prosper,” he said. Climate change doesn’t respect borders: it’s an international problem that can only be solved with co-operation and collaboration, across borders and worldwide. It is becoming increasingly clear that in many parts of the world, our climate has already changed and we need to adapt with it.”
Is the ruling class was deliberately destroying the planet? It may seem so but haven't they all attended the world’s finest elite educational institutions, so they do understand what climate change means. Though many capitalists do perceive that their interests are facing an ecological threat, what good would it do them to withdraw their capital? The capitalists are incapable of class unity, and no sooner would one withdraw investment than another would take his place. Marx talks of capitalists as “functionaries”, the servants of capitalism. Capitalists may control presidents and parliaments but they do not control capitalism.

Global warming represents the biggest existential crisis that has ever faced humanity. To make a living, which we have no choice but to contribute to a capitalism's growth-oriented economy, whose ideology is one of exploitation of both people and nature alike. Capitalism is the real cause of climate change. Life-style fashions may make individuals feel better about themselves and their relationship with the waste of consumerism but they do not challenge capitalism, itself, nor push for radical change at the global system level. People fail to condemn the political and economic structures that are the real driver of the environmental problems that confront us. Catastrophic climate change has resulted from an economic system that is based on deliberate exploitation and prioritisation of profits over people. Without a socialist vision, environmentalists will themselves reinforcing capitalist inequalities and prolonging suffering by relying on governmental or technological “quick-fixes.” We know that the global ecosystem has been damaged perhaps irreparably. Recognition of this offers powerful ammunition in campaigning against the chaotic and uncontrollable production profit-system of capital accumulation. We argue that global warming derives from unplanned economies driven by the pursuit of profit. Marxist economics provides an understanding for the climate crisis, and we need to find ways of making our ideas clear and relevant to the eco-activists. The very basis of the socialist vision needs to be restated and revitalised. We need a socialist party willing to be crystal clear about their allegiance to the interests of the exploited and to our endangered planet. The struggle for socialism is not a struggle for bigger factories or better technology, but it is for the organisation of production and distribution in such a manner as to contribute increasingly to the welfare, culture and liberty of the people in balance with their environment. It is for them that the struggle for socialism is conducted. Socialism will be determined by the will of the people.

Capitalism has continued to degrade and destroy the Earth’s natural systems that make human life possible. Its methods of manufacturing and processing have depleted nonrenewable resources and sullied renewable resources essential to life, such as water and air, and so undermined not only ecosystem health but human health as well. Socialists are bound by a common vision of a future where the health of people and the health of planet are connected. Socialism can heal the world.

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.”- Herman Hesse

Join the fight to get rid of capitalism worldwide, the only way to end the horrors of hunger, disease war and the destruction of our environment. 

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