climate change

Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 2

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Oct 31 2019 21:29

[VIDEO] Satisfying Answers on Socialism: An Open Letter to Destiny

A response to the debate on socialism between YouTuber Destiny and author/professor Ben Burgis, from a libertarian-socialist / libertarian-communist perspective. Topics covered:

1. Are capitalists immoral?
2. Can socialism overcome incentives to destroy the environment?
3. Will widespread ignorance continue in socialism?
4. Can socialism provide a strong, thriving economy?

Also: Marx gets a makeover! (In the literal, not revisionist sense!)

Only the Working Class Can Save the Planet

Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 23 2019 10:03

Only in a communist world without states and borders will human beings be able to really tackle the damage that has been done to their natural surroundings.

What You Need to Know About the Upcoming Climate Strikes: A Discussion

Submitted by R Totale on Sep 18 2019 17:32

Starting Friday, September 20th, a wide collection of groups, many formed within the last year, will kick off a week of action across the world, calling for drastic action to stop climate change. This call will be followed up by another on October 7th, as Extinction Rebellion is pushing for a day of direct actions.

Wanting to know more about the upcoming climate days of action as well as what we can expect from them, It's Going Down caught up with someone in the Northeast US who is active in the new climate movements to talk about the upcoming strikes.

Some suggestions to climate strikers

A text written to distribute at earth strike/climate strike demos. Originally posted at North Shore Counter-Info. The attached documents have versions both with and without contact details for the Green Anticapitalist Front, along with a word version for ease of editing.

Imperialism and the Amazon

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 31 2019 14:13

The article which follows was written at the beginning of the month when the continuing deforestation of the Amazon led to the yet more murders of the indigenous population. Since then the crisis has deepened as the dry season burning of the Amazon to clear the way for farming has reached new heights.

“Capitalism is Dead” (George Monbiot) but Only the World Working Class Can Bury It

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 21 2019 14:43

It did not take the fatal consequences of recent record temperatures in Western Europe, or the recent wildfires in California, monsoon floods in Nepal, India and Bangladesh or the Mozambique cyclones, to tell us that something has radically shifted in the world’s climate. The existential threat of human-created climate change to life on the planet has been understood for decades. NASA, among others, first sounded the alarm about global carbon emissions in 1988 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed the same year.

Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 1

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jul 19 2019 16:37

The first of a three-part critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on their attitudes towards the police, legal system and prison.

Thunberg's Call for General Strikes: The Confusions of a Liberal Protest

Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 17 2019 10:57

The Youth Climate Protest have turned to the mass strike as a weapon of protest. Unconsciously, they have grafted one of the major elements in the struggle for working class revolution onto their "utopian-reformist" demands. In doing so they distort the real meaning of such a strike.