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Drought is cascading across the world. The climate crisis is rapidly becoming terminal. 🧵#SocialismorExtinction factly.in/review-a-recen…
The southwestern US is in the worst drought in recorded history. ft.com/content/9f00df…
Unprecedented drought is wracking the horn of Africa. africa.cgtn.com/2022/06/10/mil…
Bourgeois ideological infrastructure and its dynamic of "report -> news cycle" is honestly stupid as fuck. This is so fucking obvious it's unfathomable.
Why aren't they doing it? Nature does not produce surplus value. That's it. #SocialismorExtinction theguardian.com/environment/20…
Why aren't they doing it? Nature does not produce surplus value. That's it. #SocialismorExtinction theguardian.com/environment/20…
Love to see another UN Climate Conference conclude we should re-invent trees, keep drinking the earth's blood like frat boys at a kegger, and swan off to achieve nothing until the next one repeats. Rinse repeat ad nauseam in an ever mounting wreath of flames.
"The alternative to flowers: why neon matters in a changing climate" will be an actual proposal in less than three years at this rate.
That the coronavirus has reduced air pollution, water pollution and so on DOES NOT demonstrate that "wE'Re tHE ViRus", people are the problem or any other number of absurd eco-fascist conjecture.
Capitalism is shutting down. It demonstrates that capitalism is the problem.
Capitalism is shutting down. It demonstrates that capitalism is the problem.
If you accept these eco-fascist lines, you are paving the way for the largest programme of eugenics this planet has ever seen. It is already in motion ("only the vulnerable will die" = fascist apologia).
Not one death is acceptable.
Not one step forward for the reactionaries.
Not one death is acceptable.
Not one step forward for the reactionaries.
The idea that this is "just people's fault" is demonstrated as absurd when one examines the observation being used to support it here.
Coronavirus has not eliminated humanity in these places. It shut down capitalist production and consumption.
Coronavirus has not eliminated humanity in these places. It shut down capitalist production and consumption.
The US Navy has deployed a low yield nuclear warhead. This gives concrete form to the US' approach to the use of nuclear weapons, and marks a serious escalation in its global campaign to maintain dominance. #SocialismorExtinction fas.org/blogs/security…
Firstly, we must ground this in contemporary US nuclear policy. As was revealed last year, the US now considers nuclear arms not only viable, but a potential at every stage of military planning. This gives a broad contexr.
The thinking behind this is derived from Herman Kahn. It is the idea that nuclear arms can be used in a limited way and that this need not escalate to all out nuclear confrontation. The US now even believes that a limited strike may "restore strategic stability".
Macron is the most prescient of Europe's shabby emporers. He has clearly grasped the circumstance, here frankly stating that the EU imperialist bloc must assert itself as a geopolitical power, that its interests no longer align with the US. cnbc.com/2019/11/11/fra…
If it does not, he says, Europe's empires will fall into the chaos of antagonsism. The Union will dissolve and it will not be able to assert itself geopolitically. Of course setting his own fascism (treatment of the Yellow Vests) aside, he notes that the spirit of the 30s lurks.
The edge of precipice indeed.
Of course, even in this clarity he wouldn't dare ponder the real solution. His path is but that of the capitalist world - toward open empire and global war.
Our path is that of the future. #SocialismorExtinction
Of course, even in this clarity he wouldn't dare ponder the real solution. His path is but that of the capitalist world - toward open empire and global war.
Our path is that of the future. #SocialismorExtinction
This garbage (a) does not solve the climate crisis, (b) necessitates a considerable deepening of British imperialism's exploitation of the earth, particularly that of its mining monopolies. #SocialismorExtinction theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
So, in order to achieve a switch to "green energy tech" (solar, wind etc.) inordinate quantities of minerals are required. The World Bank already estimates as much as 300% increase in demand.
Source: iisd.org/story/green-co…
Source: iisd.org/story/green-co…
Whilst the stats here are not just for minerals, they do make clear the environmental impact of extractive industries, which account for 53% of the world's carbon emissions already. A 300% increase in mineral extraction is, thus, a huge uptick in carbon. theguardian.com/environment/20…
A sticking plaster over a gangrenous wound at the very most. Reaching net zero does not even meet the needs of last year's UN report, which argued that coal use must be *entirely eliminated* by 2050. #SocialismorExtinction bbc.co.uk/news/amp/scien…
Net zero does not mean zero. It means that emissions will be met by off-setting by 2050. Companies *can* continue to emit as much as they like, as long as they plant trees or, more likely, invest in carbon capture technology to offset their emissions.
One evident problem: there is no need for companies in Britain to lower emissions or even become *hypothetically* carbon neutral until 2050 under this legislation. Theoretically, they can even continue to produce a greater degree emissions until that date.
