Category: Climate Change

  • Germany: Building Energy Act row shows failure of capitalism to deal with climate change

    Germany: Building Energy Act row shows failure of capitalism to deal with climate change

    Sascha Staničić, Sol (CWI Germany) Federal spokesperson A debate in Germany over the Building Energy Act, the so-called “heat transition”, has been boiling up for weeks. The conservative CDU has announced that it will make the fight against this law an issue in every upcoming election campaign. The liberal FDP (which is part of the…

  • Global Warning: Socialism and the climate crisis

    Global Warning: Socialism and the climate crisis

    by MATT DOBSON and originally published on SocialismToday.org Three decades of international climate summits and capitalism has failed to get to grips with the climate crisis. All the fundamental problems remain and are worsening. Carbon emissions are rising, as are temperatures, with climate scientists warning that the planet will reach a tipping point if temperatures…

  • Socialist Change To End Climate Change

    Socialist Change To End Climate Change

    Mick Suter World leaders will soon meet in Egypt for COP 27 to discuss progress to save the world from climate catastrophe. The statement from the event will trumpet minor progress and vague sanitised aims for future action, however, little of substance will eventuate. Capitalism is incapable of real action on the climate. 2022 has…

  • Eastern Australia floods – a disaster that could have been avoided

    Eastern Australia floods – a disaster that could have been avoided

    John Gowland The floods all along the eastern coast of Australia were and continue to be a disaster. For the most part, by mid-March, the floods are starting to dissipate. But they have left devastating consequences. The city of Brisbane, in Queensland and, north Sydney, in New South Wales, suffered major flooding, the worst recorded…

  • Australian federal government backs the ‘carbon club’ over climate action

    Australian federal government backs the ‘carbon club’ over climate action

    The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 coming to the shores of Australia in early 2020 certainly came at an opportune time for the Australian government.  At the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 (commonly now known as, the ‘Black Sumer’), devastating bushfires impacted New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory. This inferno caused…

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