0004500005=100 Ecosocialism: a few concerns A few concerns came to mind whilst reading the previous Outlook's articles on 'Ecosocialism'. My first concern is the picture painted of climate change as some sort of apocalyptic doom looming over humanity. We will all suffer an, 'unthinkable destruction,' is an example: Daniel Tanuro in Marx and Nature talks of humanity coming to a Even if this is true, how does sac'. portraying climate change in this way help mobilize workers? I think sometimes we may forget that a class issue. is climate change Jane Kelly states in Ecosocialism or Barbarism that the recent Stern report is the, 'first serious response from the British ruling class.' it, 'wants to make the working class, the poor and those in under-developed countries to pay for the crisis.' should oppose any attempt at shifting the responsibility for the climate crisis on the working class. responsible burden to no workers have state and political power, we will take responsibility. then we will not hold the burden for the ruling classes' plunder. that Cuba, where workers coincidence do have political power, meets almost all UN eco standards, far ahead other country. In my opinion, any demands we do call for must be in the same character as our economic transitional demands. unfair workplaces'; we call for, 'less fight for call on workers to and wages increases. flights in the reducing cheap air same line? It's hard to see working class mobilizations Similarly with taxes: airport demand. taxes, congestion charging; all these are anti-working class by the capitalists. We need on the issue, countries. 'cul-de- wrong. farms for! Effectively We When Until to make damaged. of any example. We don't such unions to climate change. Is calling for massive climate change issue. over that James Haywood 28 measures to deal with a problem created and exacerbated to be much more class concrete for example it is not 'humanity' which is at stake here, it is the working class and especially the working class of semi-colonial The rulers will find their own way of dealing with climate change to protect their interests; 'authoritarian solutions' like Jane Kelly states in her article. But to suggest that bourgeois solutions could be in the interests of 'humanity' is One example is the 'bio-fuel' ethanol, which the capitalists are stripping the Amazon rainforest to make One also wonders how many capitalists died in New Orleans, the Asian Tsunamis of that horrific New Year, the recent Pakistani floods, and the Ivan and Katrina hurricanes. The Cuban government, by contrast, has invested in proper equipment to predict when storms or other environmental disasters may occur. More importantly it mobilizes workers on a mass scale sure no human life is lost; and immediate relief to those whose properties or livelihoods has been Some strong 'eco-transitional' demands were evident in the articles in Outlook. Free, quality public transport was one But we must stress that only through independent working class action will we get any real solution It is good to see Socialist Resistance taking the lead on the left with a proper debate over the
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