The rich are killing the planet | As the capitalist system decays, the ruling class in country after country is now forced to abandon even the pretense of a climate policy.
https://www.marxist.ca/article/the-rich-are-killing-the-planet
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The rich are killing the planet | As the capitalist system decays, the ruling class in country after country is now forced to abandon even the pretense of a climate policy.
https://www.marxist.ca/article/the-rich-are-killing-the-planet
by rarer_
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> After decades of climate conferences, targets, commitments and lots of noise from liberal environmentalists, everything seems to be rolling backwards. In spite of the fact that [80 per cent](https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/80-percent-people-globally-want-stronger-climate-action-governments-according-un) of the global population wants stronger action on climate change, nothing happens.
> This has left many people feeling depressed. Doomerism and [“eco-anxiety”](https://mentalhealthcommission.ca/resource/understanding-and-coping-with-eco-anxiety/) are widespread phenomena as people fear for the future and lose hope. Capturing this mood perfectly, David Suzuki, longtime figurehead of the environmentalist movement, in an [interview](https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/) this year concluded: “it’s too late”.
> But this is only the logical result of the climate movement bashing its head into the wall of liberalism. Solutions based on the capitalist market fail, climate change gets worse, but no new solutions are put forward to get us out of this impasse. This is a finished recipe for doomerism.
> The starting point of any approach to tackling the climate crisis must be a rejection of the capitalist system. Only by bringing the means of production under common ownership and democratic control of the working class, can we begin to find a solution to this existential problem.
Define rich
And the meat eaters
There’s not nearly enough focus on how wildly disproportionately the rich fuck up the planet.
There should be projections based on how things are now + 25 years vs 2050 but without the top hundred or so uber wealthy from every continent (or whatever a better metric is, very likely that’s not the best one!)
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