Destroying Our Planet... Sustainably
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 10 2020 17:01
As this article goes to press (December 2019), the bush fires that have been raging for weeks through six Australian states, from Queensland to Western Australia, have consumed 12.5 million acres of land and the death toll is mounting. They continue to wreak disaster as record-breaking temperatures average over 400C.
Can Capitalist Reform Save The Environment?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Feb 27 2020 15:28
The Stockholm Resilience Centre has recently identified a number of key issues which are becoming catastrophic for life on Earth. Climate change is only one of them but it’s top of the list.
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.
“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.
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.
