Source: The Democrats and the Climate Crisis – CounterPunch.org
Category: climate change
Capitalist imperatives
The Amazon fires are a terrible tragedy. But the worst tragedy is that companies get to make millions attacking indigenous people and burning down vital ecosystems. The damage will stop not when the fires are put out, but only when it’s no longer profitable to set them.
‘We need to be realistic’: AOC predicts Miami won’t exist ‘in a few years’ without Green New Deal
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicted that Miami will no longer exist in just a couple of years if the Green New Deal is not passed.
Source: ‘We need to be realistic’: AOC predicts Miami won’t exist ‘in a few years’ without Green New Deal
The impotence of leftist activism: confronting pillagers
Tomgram: Michael Klare, A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic
To Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy
We cannot confront climate change without first confronting the unequal power relations that caused it.
Source: To Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy
It’s Not About Your Straws or Your Light Bulbs
Polluting industries want you to think the climate crisis is your fault, not theirs… A few years ago, I had a cupcake problem. I’d go to the cupcake store almost daily and I’d eat at least one
Source: It’s Not About Your Straws or Your Light Bulbs | Common Dreams Views
Confronting Global Warming and Austerity
In the United States, proposals for a Green New Deal have been getting considerable attention in recent months as activists have pressed both members of Congress and Democratic presidential candidates to support aggressive measures to combat global warming. There clearly is much more that we can and must do in the immediate future to prevent enormous damage to the planet. More
Source: Confronting Global Warming and Austerity – CounterPunch.org
From protests to revolutionary action…? Earth 4C Hotter
The fires in the Amazon, which have actually triggered a global protest, suggest a kind of psychosis in politicians and elite capitalists over climate change and the prospect of 4C temperature change signals a near death knell for the planet…We must, as a gesture of protest, begin to make the motions toward a revolutionary intervention…Even the symbolism of such a move could have an effect…
Need for an ecological/environmental International…//The Fires in the Amazon Were Set on Purpose
Our many discussions of ‘democratic market neo-communism’ have focused on a new approach: to consider socialism in one country to get socialist economics in place: but the parallel issue of an international arises at once and the obvious vacuum of any left can be seen in projecting the need for a global response team to save the Amazon….
These fires were set on purpose and Bolsonaro is to blame.
Source: The Fires in the Amazon Were Set on Purpose | Left Voice
