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The debates around growth that are taking place currently among climate scientists and in the climate movement are an opportunity to do this and for socialists to deepen our understanding of the climate crisis and point a way forward.
These are the frightening results of a world ruled by capitalism, a system hellbent on growth for growth’s sake regardless of the consequences.
The World Meteorological Organisation is warning that a rare Super ‘El Niño’ is on its way – spelling floods, mudslides, droughts, crop failures, wildfires, skyrocketing temperatures and general climate volatility. There is an 80% chance for almost every part of the globe to reach above-average temperatures in June and July, and a 90% chance that the impacts of El Niño will be felt all the way into November, and potentially beyond.
This vast real estate project is extremely destructive to Albania’s biodiversity. The patriarchal head of the dynasty, Donald Trump himself, has clearly demonstrated his contempt for the natural world – epitomised in his sloganeering “Drill Baby Drill” and his and the Israeli regime’s ecocide in Gaza.
The most inspiring and distinctive feature about COP30 was the resistance, in the form of direct action that multiple Indigenous groups and activists carried out in the first week of COP30. Indeed, after marching and protesting outside the COP, demonstrators forced themselves into the buildings, and occupied the restricted zone of the conference for a short period of time before they were physically forced out by security guards and police. This was a powerful action in which local Indigenous leaders demanded to be heard, stating that their land is not for sale nor up for negotiations.
The Tunisian Revolution opened the door to a wave of protest movements and the raising of social demands across the country. Gabès, which had suffered from gas emissions and pollution caused by the chemical complex since the 1970s, also rose up. Protests escalated to the point of sit-ins inside the factory and even temporary shutdowns of production, demanding either the closure of the complex or a radical solution to reclaim their city from what they call “pollution and death.”
Although scientists estimate that 200,000 have died following the Chernobyl disaster, big business and governments are attempting to resurrect nuclear power, arguing the consequences of the disaster were not so serious after all.
While the world is burning, the rulers of this capitalist hellscape continue to carry out, support and enable the ongoing genocides in Palestine and Sudan.
By Isi Stewart Duran (Socialist Party Ireland) 23 January 2025 At the time of writing, firefighters in Los Angeles are warning of ‘explosive fire growth’
