Capitalism causes climate chaos!
November 28, 2013 19:30
Published:
November 24, 2013 18:12
by Notts Awl |
Peacock pub, 11 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FB. Accessibility issues: the pub is wheelchair accessible but does not have accessible toilets. The meeting room is up a flight of stairs.
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Vestas wind turbine workers occupied their factory against threatened job losses, 2009
The industrial revolution sowed the seeds of today's climate chaos. Largely unchecked capitalist development, in the west and now in the east, massively increases productivity but also brings the by-product of dangerous pollution.
We want to end capitalism because of the inequality and exploitation it breeds, but also for the danger it poses to the environment and the very future of mankind and the planet.
Is socialism a solution to climate chaos - and what kind of socialism? How can we get trade unions and left-wing parties to think further and act more radically on the environment than they are doing today?
Tony Byrne leads a discussion, with plenty of time for questions and debate. We also hope to have a participant with knowledge of the environmental movement in Greece where the community in Skouries is battling against proposals to build a gold mine.
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