Climate Change: The Path to Socialism

Here is an excerpt from a site called socialist unity. Ive added my own interpretations.

While it may be urgent that we create a red green alliance to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change, our collective problem is how are we going to do that?

The Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney Australia during April tried to tackle that challenge.This was a bold attempt to bring together left and green activists in order to locate a shared perspective around which we could begin more consciously organize. While this was an Australian event organised by the newspaper, Green Left Weekly, the conference also heard from the Cuban permaculturalist Roberto Perez; the editor of Monthly Review John Bellamy Foster (author of Marx’s Ecology); and Patrick Bond director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society.

According to dictionary.com a permaculturist is:

per·ma·cul·ture /ˈpɜrməˌkʌltʃər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pur-muh-kuhl-cher] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.

Also note the author of Marx's Ecology how exciting!

Foster and Perez urged the conference’s participants to consider socialism as the only viable solution to the climate emergency. This was a persistent theme discussed throughout the three day event as speakers were drawn from a range of environment movements and organisations (such as the Australian Greens and Friends of the Earth) as well as academic specialists — who preferred solution packages which were not consciously committed to a socialist transformation of society.

Hmm, so socialism is the only way to stop climate change. Kind of like a gateway drug.

Nonetheless, the plenaries and workshops teased out a lot of agreement over what can concretely be done today.

The final Conference statement tried to articulate that shared perspective. It argued that climate sustainability can be built on five basic elements:

1. properly resourced public agencies to drive the sustainability effort,
2. an international framework where the First World pays the vast bulk of the price of reversing global warming,
3. an end to rampant consumerism,
4. vastly strengthened campaigns for climate sustainability, and
5. building a powerful political alliance for climate sustainability with social justice.

Or we could say:

1. Give the government more police power
2. Transfer the wealth of America and Western Europe to China so they can have clean air and water.
3. Poverty is better than consuming too much. By the way who decides how much is too much.
4. Four and five are mostly the same thing. It means these climate alarmist groups will take contributions and instead of doing something productive they will lobby the government to tax the rest of us and in turn use these tax dollars to do what they want.
5. See #4 for the first half. For the second half, social justice. How does that factor in to this? I really don't think anyone knows but it sure does sound catchy doesn't it.
   

To summarize their hopes. Socialism causes poverty, poverty makes less pollution. Brilliant we have all found the answer to global warming.

Hat tip coyote blog.