Yesterday, Friday 20th. across the world people took to the streets in their millions, with one voice, "Stop The Destruction Of The Planet", Glasgow was no exception. I have always considered that the climate emergency call was necessary and urgent, their righteous anger too subdued and their target was wrong, they were aiming their anger at governments, asking them to legislate to make capitalism "green". Capitalism is the real reason the planet is burning and it is that system that has to be attacked and destroyed. What was encouraging, at least with the Glasgow protest, is the fact that, that message has started to appear in a greater number of banners and leaflets. The message is getting home, capitalism in conjunction with governments are the fire-raisers, and the reason the planet is burning.
Glasgow Video:
Some Photos From Glasgow Protest:
A leaflet from The Protest:
SPACESHIP EARTH
HAS
NO ESCAPE CAPSULE.
The earth is burning,
and we know who is responsible for this disaster, but it is pointless
to ask the fire-raisers to be more careful with their matches. They
live for and by their fire-raising activities, and gain immensely
from their actions with their matches. It allows them to sail in
multi-million pound yachts, buy tropical islands for their own
selfish pleasure and gives them tremendous power over the rest of us,
not something they will
give up without a fight.
Capitalism and states work
hand in hand at this fire-raising, apart from the industrial
pollution, they spawn wars, a major cause of world pollution and
therefore climate change. So we have to attack the root cause of this
human disaster. Appealing to them to modify their behaviour, may
result in smaller fires here and there, but the earth will still
burn, their ethos is continuous growth, an impossibility.
Green capitalism is still
going to extract ever more resources from the finite supply on earth,
it will not end wars, leading to eventual environmental disaster of
one sort or another. It is only the destruction of capitalism that we
may stop this impending disaster
capitalism is the enemy
"The wrong Amazon is burning". That's a good one!
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