The Revolutionary Socialist Network, Workers
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Socialism1NC -- Alt -- SocialismThe socialist movement solves for the environmentPadilla ’21 [Luis-Alberto; 2021; president of the board of the Guatemalan International Relations & Peace Research Institute (IRIPAZ), member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former Secretary General of the Latin American Council on Peace Research (CLAIP), Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Former Vice Minister, former ambassador in Chile, former permanent representative to the United Nations at the Vienna International Centre, former ambassador to Austria, former ambassador to the Russian Federation, former ambassador to the Netherlands, permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, and professor of the Seminar of World Geopolitics at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University Rafael Landivar (URL) of Guatemala; Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene, “Ian Angus,” Ch. 5.3.4, p. 234] SPark Calamity has already struck for many among the poorer populations, whether from floods, droughts, heatwaves, or food shortages. Shortages and droughts provoke internal violent conflict - as in the Middle East - which in turn generates further scarcity alongside the violence, triggering massive migratory flows that then strain the resource-base in other countries, like Turkey and several European countries. The dialectic of scarcity feeds and is fed by terrorism and military intervention in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen, and the consequences are terrorist attacks against civilians in both Muslim and predominantly non-Muslim countries. In the last two chapters Angus outlines the main points of his eco-socialist alternative, underlining the importance of replacing carbon-based fuels (including biofuels) with clean sources of power under community control (wind, geothermal, wave and solar power), promoting collective transport instead of individual vehicles, promoting food sovereignty, drastically reducing greenhouse emissions, and so on. He stresses the main features of a social movement that must be an ecological and majority counterpower, pluralist and open to different views within what he calls “the green left”, and overall able to constantly extend the analysis and programme in the light of changing political circumstances and scientific knowledge. It should be internationalist and anti-imperialist, capable of overcoming all kinds of environmental struggles - large and small - and unite the eco-socialist consciousness in order to create an ecological civilization. Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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