French
police pepper-sprayed XR climate campaigners involved in a sit-down
protest endeavouring to block a bridge over the River Seine.
"We
need to civilly disrupt because, otherwise, nothing is going to be
done." said a female who took part in the protest
The
meteorological agency said that temperature in parts of France topped
45° C (113° F), the highest on record.
Leading eco-activists continue to believe that the free-market is the only force capable of reducing CO2 emissions to the levels needed, in the time needed, to stave off disaster. Gambling with all of our futures, their best bet the planet is the hope that some scheme might be devised that could make profits so to incentify the corporations. All the solutions on offer will not save the planet. The Socialist Party considers this as a form of climate denial. Socialists must galvanise the many climate justice movements so to leave no room for ambiguity about what it necessary within our lifetimes to avoid global climate catastrophe. .
The Socialist Party is well aware of this and of the system’s rapacious nature. The Socialist Party knows that capitalism is the cause of climate change and socialism i.e. common ownership and democratic production-for-needs is the cure. Those within the green movement who advocate life-style changes to reduce consumerism and consumption miss the point. It is not about consuming less for most of the planets inhabitants or even for those of us in the “affluent” developed countries. It is about stopping capitalism from consuming the planet. The Socialist Party offers the only chance to ensure the survival of humanity in the face of what may be greatest threat it has ever faced.
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