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THE CLIMATE CRISIS | ==THE CLIMATE CRISIS== | ||
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Revision as of 12:22, 1 December 2011
Summary
The global climate crisis continues and worsens.
What are the basic natural mechanisms and ‘human made’ causes of this crisis ?
Why do we say that the capitalist mode of production is the fundamental cause of this crisis?
What are the current phenomena which can be linked to the warming of the planet?
The climate crisis puts into question the productivist characteristics of capitalism.
Can capitalism find a solution to global warming through new technologies and new profits in the sector of green capitalism?
What is the situation concerning global negotiations on climate change after Copenhagen?
What are the plans of the EU, of the USA and of the large ‘emerging’ economies like China, India and South Africa?
How do we fight against climate change and for global justice?
What should be the role of the workers movement, of the farmers, of indigenous peoples in the fight for Climate Justice?
How does the fight against climate change alter our socialist project and our strategies?
Outline
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
1 . Climate change is an established fact
2. A brutal change, irreversible at the human time scale
3. Is the cause “human activities”? Why?
4. The responsibility of “real existing” socialism
5. Catastrophic consequences
6. The people is the Global South will suffer most
7. Workers and poor people
8. Extreme urgency
9. A critique of the GIEC figures
See p. 9 and 10
10. Strategies and priorities
We need a structural strategy for change, the only valid strategy is reduction of emissions at the source!
11. Lower energy consumption et transition towards renewables
12. Energy consumption and social progress
13. The people in the Global South and clean technologies
14. The challenges for the South
15. Population and climate
16. The capitalist lobbies 17. Carbon trade, social and climate injustice
18. Inter capitalist competition and global ecological constraints
19. Even more liberal capitalist policies
20. Ecological and social consequences
21. Necessity of building relationship of forces at the social level
22. Climate and social justice
23. Central responsibility of the trade-union left
Reading materials
- Daniel Tanuro, 2010 Mobilization for the climate and anti-capitalist strategy
- Daniel Tanuro, 2008 The energy climate plan of Barack Obama
- 16th World Congress Fourth International , 2010 Resolution climate change
- Friends of the Earth, 2011 World bank:Climate change and energy financing