Adam Booth, writer for www.socialist.net, talks about the environmental crisis and its relationship to capitalism, analysing the question from a Marxist perspective. Adam discusses issues such as carbon trading, green economic stimulus, and the role of individual actions in averting climate change, and in contrast presents a socialist solution to the environmental and ecological problems facing society and the planet.
“I recently read the RCP’s article on Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand. It resonated with me as someone who has made the journey from Just Stop Oil and getting arrested for direct action, to revolutionary communism and class struggle.”
In India, millions of tyres are sent each year from Britain to be burned in dangerous furnaces. In Brazil, miles of rainforest are being cleared to make way for the COP climate conference. Everywhere, the capitalists’ ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis are being exposed.
In the second episode of our series on the Classics: Daniel, Nye, Georgina & Peter discuss the ideas of Engels’ Socialism: Utopian & Scientific.