[Marxism] Evo Morales on addressing climate change: `Save the planet from capitalism' | Links

[glparramatta]

Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning 
of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand 
years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the 
retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase 
of the sea level and the flooding of coastal areas, where approximately 
60% of the world population live; the increase in the processes of 
desertification and the decrease of fresh water sources; a higher 
frequency in natural disasters that the communities of the earth 
suffer[1]; the extinction of animal and vegetal species; and the spread 
of diseases in areas that before were free from those diseases.

One of the most tragic consequences of the climate change is that some 
nations and territories are the condemned to disappear by the increase 
of the sea level.

Everything began with the industrial revolution in 1750, which gave 
birth to the capitalist system. In two and a half centuries, the so 
called “developed” countries have consumed a large part of the fossil 
fuels created over five million centuries.

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