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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