Climate crisis

The Extinction Rebellion movement has hit the headlines recently for its direct action tactics. But to fight climate change, we must unite the green and red agendas by linking ecological demands with those of workers.

The recent IPCC report has set alarm bells ringing about the urgency of combatting climate change. But the capitalists cannot – and will not – do anything to save the planet.

As temperatures rise, the capitalists can do nothing but look on impotently. At the end of the day, it is their system that is responsible for this destruction.

Capitalism is killing our planet. But by taking over a tiny number of big companies, we could solve the problem through a socialist plan of production.

Access to the most important element of life is increasingly under threat due to a killer combo of rising temperatures and decades of infrastructure neglect.

The United Nations’ annual climate change summit, COP23, is drawing to a close in Bonn, Germany. But, as Joe Russell explains, such summits have been shown to generate little other than a lot of hot air. Decisive, radical action is needed. To combat climate change, revolutionary change is needed.

There were scenes of jubilation in Paris last Saturday evening, as delegates celebrated the results of negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference. But before the ink had even dried on the paper, doubts were already being raised – doubts that, in the final analysis, reflect the limitations and contradictions of the capitalist system.

In one week’s time, world leaders will meet in Paris for the COP21 United Nations climate change conference. But as bourgeois politicians impotently discuss and negotiate, the atmosphere continues to heat up as capitalism kills the planet. As Adam Booth outlines, the future facing humanity is clear: socialism or barbarism.

Hundreds of environmental activists from a broad range of backgrounds gathered in London on Saturday 28^th March for an all-day event about the climate crisis and the radical alternatives needed to solve it. “This Changes Everything” marked an important step forward for the environmental movement, with speaker after speaker emphasising the need for fundamental change.