Climate Crisis
Today, there is growing global awareness of the risk to the survival of human society caused by global warming. This is a risk faced by all, whether rich or poor, from developed, developing or underdeveloped countries. But as is the nature with all such crises, this crisis will also affect first, and most acutely, the poorest communities and people of the world. This is therefore first and foremost a crisis of the working people. Working class organisations will therefore have to take up the struggle against global warming, and decisively. Workers will need to take up the struggle at the individual and local level, in pushing for community action to reduce inefficient and wasteful consumption. They need to take up the struggle in solidarity with local communities fighting displacement, as a common struggle against global warming. They need to question politically a global ideology that talks of unlimited and unregulated freedom to capital to exploit people and resources. They have to forge and lead an alliance of common people at the local, regional, national and international level, that forces governments to re-examine present development models and reshape society more equitably. This is a struggle against capital that allows trade unions to build alliances with different diverse struggles for social and economic justice across the world.