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An environmentalist statement we could publish in Liberation News.
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So, obviously our response to the Global Greens didn't go down too well. We need to intertwine what we've already been doing--everything we've already been doing--with environmentalism. Here is a proposed statement for that.


It is in this day and age we are faced with two crises.

These crises have been set in motion since the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. They have been intertwined with each other, always strengthening and weakening themselves. These are the crises that could bring an end to all prosperity we know on earth, and these are the crises which no-one pays attention to. One is destroying our labor, the other is destroying our earth. They are twins, and their names are Climate Change and Capitalism.

Capitalism, since its inception, has been based upon privatization of the commons which we previously all shared. It has been based on theft from the many for the profit of the few. It rewards immoral and psychopathic behavior with money and “wealth”. It is founded upon debt, theft, and shortsightedness.

Unmistakably, this irresponsible economic system is the cause of the toll on our natural resources which affect us all. The privatization of what once belonged to us all has given corporations the excuse to abuse the land, the trees and the air—because it's theirs, apparently. “Who cares what happens to the rest of the world?” is their mantra.

Because of this theft and lack of long-term thinking, we have ruined our world. Temperatures are higher than they ever have been in human history. Oil spills happen every few years. Deforestation spreads like a virus. All this destruction in the name of money, of profit—of capital.

It is time to recognize that these should not remain in the hands of the few. It is time to recognize that when a corporation cuts down trees without replanting, uses unsustainable and polluting fossil fuels, and when they can't stop their oil from spilling that it affects the commons which we all share. If a man decided to start dumping his trash in your yard, would you yell at him to pick it up? If so, then why should we stand by and spectate when private interests ruin our land, our trees, and our air—just because it's profitable?!

Then what is the answer? To abolish private property? To return everything but our house and items to the commons?

Maybe that isn't such a bad idea.

Without profit, without a rabid desire to accumulate capital as an end to itself, we would have less reason to destroy the environment than we would to save it. Why would you pollute the air, conveniently “forget” to replant trees, or spill oil if you recognized that money as an end to itself is worth less than the world?

That is the Green-Left's mission. While other environmentalists may attempt to cure the symptoms and not the disease, we are busy preparing the cure and vaccine for individual irresponsibility.

The twin demons must be killed.

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