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.
Six days after flash floods left at least 214 people dead, the Spanish King and Prime Minister were pelted with mud and chased away by angry protesters. These unprecedented scenes were an expression of seething class rage.
With the earth’s natural carbon sinks collapsing, and 15,000 scientists warning that we are entering “an unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, it is clear that something drastic must change. We say: fight the climate crisis! Fight capitalism!
The USA has been battered by a series of deadly hurricanes in the past few weeks. These disasters have exposed that capitalism cannot deal with the consequences of the climate crisis – a catastrophe of its own making.