COP 26 — a summit of World leaders and 30,000 politicians, businessmen, bankers, “green investors” and “green lobbyists” and many other hangers on are expected to be in Glasgow this week to attend the event which is sponsored by an array of multinational corporations in the energy, car, chemical, pharmaceutical and IT sectors. These are […]
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Climate change is real, and its impacts are clear. Increasingly the climate disaster feels apocalyptic. The real issue is not: is there climate change? What is to be done? – that is the question. Some, especially young people, feel despair worrying about the future state of the world. If the governments and corporations that dominate […]
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Conor Payne and Chris Stewart are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution. Too often, however, this discussion lacks sufficient class or anti-capitalist content, […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). All this week of the COP 26 in Glasgow, Socialist Alternative will have articles on the issues at stake. The existential threat of the climate crisis has never been more obvious or more urgent. The 2021 IPCC report has confirmed that we are […]
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Sam Belton is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Levels of CO2in the atmosphere are now 50 percent higher than at the onset of capitalist industry in the 1800s. Without urgent action, it will be 100 percent higher by 2060. At this point, the latest IPCC report predicts that the earth’s surface […]
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Nicolas Croes is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). “Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems. (…) Humans cannot.” The verdict is hard. It is in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) interim summary, […]
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Robert Bielecki is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Fight for a Socialist Alternative! The new IPCC climate report is vital, but flawed in one crucial respect: the problem is not “humanity” – it’s capitalism! The new major climate report from the UN’s climate panel, IPCC, is a devastating indictment of the world’s […]
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Water shortages have led to nearly a week of desperate protests in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province leaving at least ten dead. One thing is clear, the newly elected “death judge” will not have one calm minute. With a population of 5 million, Khuzestan can be called the “beating heart” of Iran, because it is one […]
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Jonas Brännberg is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Two years after the first global climate strike on 19 March 2019, despite the acute situation, Covid-19 has pushed the question into the background. Yet the coronavirus is in itself a judgment on the capitalist mode of production which destroys ecosystems and creates biological […]
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The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it out alive.” On the evening of Wednesday, June 30, smoke was spotted, and 15 minutes later a full evacuation order was issued as […]
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