It is obvious to any intelligent observed with a modicum of integrity who views this insane economic system, that it will deliberately destroy the planet in its drive for corporate power and increased profit, the system cannot survive otherwise.
It has a variety of ways of increasing profit, slashing workers conditions, increasing production efficiency, (throwing more workers on the dole) and of course, wars, probably the biggest corporate growth method in their armoury. At no time is the plight of people in this mad drive for increased profit and power a consideration, they are simply dispensable units of no consequence.
For a few years now the TAP question has jumped to the headlines.
Precisely since 2013, the TAP consortium was chosen to carry out the
construction of a gas pipeline through Turkey, Greece, Albania, the
Adriatic Sea right to Italy, with Salento as its final destination so
that it could be linked to another gas pipeline, the TANAP, which joins
Turkey with Azerbaijan (where natural gas fields are to be found), and
finally become SNAM, going up through the Italian Apennines, the
so-called ‘Adriatic network’ – up to Austria.
Thousands of kilometres of pipelines, gas pressurization and
depressurization plants, thrust wells, micro tunnels to link the
mainland and the sea, optic fibres cables along the whole route,
construction sites that will destroy landscape and local environments,
high risk of accidents and explosions, air pollution, heavy vehicles on
the roads for years to come, exponential increase of police forces,
industrial transformation of the economy of a whole area and consequent
loss of all choices for the people who live there. An example of this is
ILVA in Taranto, a few kilometres from Lecce and Melendugno, where the
gas pipeline will arrive.
Boasted to be the vanguard of progress in the 60s, ILVA, the biggest
European iron and steel plant, has left only a desert, animated by a
high concentration of tumours and diseases and no other possible means
of survival compatible with the plant. For a number of years this has
also been happening in the Lecce area. The Xylella affair and the
withering of the olive trees, strongly suspected, even by the judiciary,
to have been started by and continues with the aim of benefitting big
agro-pharmaceutical multinationals such as Monsanto, Bayer and others,
along with the TAP gas pipeline, give an idea of an attempt to
dramatically transform a territory, probably considered unproductive by
an economic model accustomed to exploiting every possible square
centimetre. A recent bill of the Italian minister for Agriculture which,
to tackle the Xylella problem imposes massive use of pesticides, from
roadsides to the countryside, and failure to do so implies huge fines,
is an absolute confirmation of this. So-called renewable energy with its
wind and solar energy farms, biomass-fuelled plants and the massive
concreting over and privatization of the coast, the latter destined to
favour the tourist industry, are important parts of this picture.
Energy
But if a local look can help, it turns out to be absolutely limited
and limiting if we want to better understand what the TAP gas pipeline
is, its implications and reasons for being, mainly the same as those of
the sources that produce and transport energy. This society or system,
which many consider inseparable from the State apparatus, the
international and economic bureaucracies that dictate the rules on a
global financial level, is a heavy devourer of energy and will become so
even more; and it takes little to realize how this reflexion is
unquestionable. Two examples more than others show how the need for
energy is considered irrevocable, and consequently strategic, primary.
The fact that the capitalist economy feeds off war is nothing new.
Wars are often waged precisely in order to give new lymph to state
economies in crisis, through the production of weapons and machinery. Or
else, it is precisely the research, possession and management of fossil
energy sources that dictate the calendar of some wars. Consider for
example what’s happening in Syria, precisely where there are huge
deposits of natural gas and the population has been slaughtered in a
forgotten war for a long time. Whatever the reasons that feed a war
conflict and the resulting dose of death and devastation, this cannot
take place without an impressive use of energy. A single bomber fighter
(an F-15 fighter uses 7,000 litres of kerosene per hour) can give a good
indication. ---------
Read the full article HERE:
Visit ann arky's home at
radicalglasgow.me.uk