For years, scientists have warned us that we need to act on
climate change. The warning signs have been obvious. Capitalist politics of business-as-usual
cannot solve this environmental crisis. We need to look at radical measures
adequate to the challenge. The technology for a zero-carbon emission economy
already exists. But the fundamental block to action is not the lack of
technology. The real problem is that government and industry are stopping
serious climate action. A safe climate is not possible unless an informed population
fights for it. It is clear that
capitalism cannot accomplish these objectives. If we do not want to undermine
the ecological conditions that support civilisation, what else can accomplish
these goals other than socialism with common ownership of the means of
production and democratic planning? Capitalism has always failed to provide
food, education, and health-care to at least hundreds of millions of people so
what hope is there for those who place the hope of humanity into the hands of
the capitalist class when it has never delivered on its promises of raising
living standards and bringing about freedom from daily drudgery. If you’re
concerned about the future of humanity and the natural world and you believe we
need to take immediate corrective steps, then you must establish a socialist
society first and foremost. In a nutshell, what we mean by ‘socialism’ is a
world economy controlled by workers and devoted to the needs of humanity rather
than the narrow interests of investors. Humanity is at a crossroad and
capitalism is in the way. Socialism has its material roots in the inability of
capitalism to solve humanity's problems. Working people gravitate toward a
radical critique of society out of necessity, out of a sense that the existing
arrangements of society fail to fulfill their material needs.
Socialism aims for an economic
system based on human need. Socialism is a rebalancing of the world —
transforming society to a more ecocentric worldview. With a systemic analysis,
we understand the crises of economic exploitation and environmental catastrophe
as inextricably linked where profit is the highest goal attained by growth at
all costs and a devastated climate is the symptom of a systemic malady. The
earth’s climate is changing quickly, much faster than experts thought. There is
no doubt what is causing this: the warming of the atmosphere as a result of
emissions by greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 from the burning of oil, coal and
natural gas. The urgency is intense because the measures we need to take have
been put off for decades. Governments and businesses have ignored the warnings.
Solutions exist so why do governments not take the necessary steps? The answer
is simple: because the governments are at the service of the multinationals who
are waging a war of competition for maximum profit. Governments prefer to
destroy the planet ,
and threaten humanity with barbaric chaos endangering the lives of hundreds of
millions of people.
Mankind has struggled to harness nature through years of
technological revolution and today finds itself up before the last obstacle:
capitalism. It is possible to stop the climate catastrophe while guaranteeing a
dignified life for all. On one condition: establishing a socialist society.
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