Essay by Eric Worrall
I wonder if Prime Minister Modi and student parents know that New Delhi University teaches that capitalist growth needs to be replaced by “cleaner, gentler and more sustainable economic models.”
Climate change is political and we must treat it that way
Global warming is not yet an election issue – and therein lies the problem
VIA ROBERT MIZO
CONTRIBUTORS
April 17, 2024…
Furthermore, the settlement The climate crisis requires a fundamental rethink how humans interact with nature – especially the way we shop, produce and consume our means of existence. It requires cleaner, gentler and more sustainable economic models.
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For example, former President Donald Trumpnot long after taking office in 2017, withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement to “promote national economic interests.”
If we cite Marx’s definition of politics as class struggle, climate change is indeed a site of contestation not only between competing interests but also conflicting modes of production or economic systems. The ruling classes – the political and economic elites – have so far resisted reforming the system that causes global warming in the first place, namely industrial capitalism.
The much-needed economic restructuring is a deeply political issue with no immediate viable prospects. The irony, however, is that unlike other issues, climate change has yet to feature in the manifestos of political parties in many major democracies, and politicians rarely promise to take action. about climate in their campaigns. This is partly because there has been no popular demand to put this issue at the center of the agenda, except for a few sparse movements led by civil society.
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Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/04/17/world/climate-change-is-political/
Greenists like Professor Mizo are absolutely right that communism would probably reduce emissions. People looking for grass seeds and trying to figure out what kind of pet they should cook next don’t have enough money to buy luxuries.
But who in their right mind really wants to live that way? Even China, which dilutes economic communism to preserve political communism, still has hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty.
You only have to look across the Taiwan Strait to see what China might have done, what did it do? Chiang Kai-shek won the civil war on the mainland and China fully embraced Capitalism from the beginning. China will become like the United States, a great power for good in the world.
Last time I was in Taiwan, a government official asked me to follow her when I went out to enjoy one of their food markets one night. Ask, don’t demand. I did and the people at the government agency explained that they needed my help for a promotional campaign. At every stage I had the choice to say no. Of course I helped, they asked nicely. Taiwan is such a place.
When I visited, Taiwan was very clean, and Taiwanese people loved and cared about their country. China is dirty, the streets are covered with dust and trash, only the more visible places are swept clean.
I’ve also stood on the border between North and South Korea, and there the differences couldn’t be clearer. In the South are bustling and productive farms. In the North is a half-finished land, overgrown fields and starving soldiers under camouflage waiting for a war that for them never ends.
China below Deng diluted Mao’s hardline communism by allowing grassroots capitalism and saved their economy, but President Xi Jinping appears to be rolling back Deng’s economic reforms and is threatening to plunge China once again into Communist Party poverty.
India, like China, is at a crossroads. President Modi has given Indians a taste of prosperity and good government after decades of failed socialist policies, but Modi is an old man.
Will Indian students whose minds are trapped by green neo-Marxism reject Modi’s legacy?
With clear evidence that capitalism and increasing resource exploitation are major drivers for good in the world, improving lives wherever they are adopted, I think people in India and elsewhere should think long and hard about the alternatives, before they listen to illusionists’ enticing promises of “cleaner, gentler” alternatives. and more sustainable”. All historical evidence indicates that nations that pursue systems other than capitalism for any reason are inevitably subject to tyranny, famine, depression, poverty, and ultimately is destructive.
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