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No to false solutions! Climate Justice
Now!
1. The current world
economic crisis marks the end of the neoliberalphase of capitalism.‘Business as
usual’ (financialisation, deregulation, privatisation…) is thus no longer an
option: new spaces of accumulation and types of political regulation will need to
be found by governments and corporations to keep capitalism going.
2. Alongside the
economic and political as well as energy crises, there is another crisis
rocking the world: the biocrisis, the result of a suicidal mismatch between the
ecological life support system that guarantees our collective human survival
and capital’s need for constant growth.
3. This biocrisis is
an immense danger to our collective survival, but like all crises it also
presents us, social movements, with a historic opportunity: to really go for
capitalism’s exposed jugular, its need for unceasing, destructive, insane
growth.
4. Of the proposals
that have emerged from global elites, the only one that promises to address all
these crises is the ‘Green New Deal’. This is not the cuddly green capitalism
1.0 of organic agriculture and D.I.Y. windmills, but a proposal for a new
’green’ phase of capitalism that seeks to generate profits from the piecemeal
ecological modernisation of certain key areas of production (cars, energy,
etc.)
5. Green capitalism
2.0 cannot solve the biocrisis (climate change and other ecological problems
such as the dangerous reduction of biodiversity), but rather tries to profit
from it. It therefore does not fundamentally alter the collision course on
which any market-driven economy sets humanity with the biosphere.
6. This isn’t the
1930s. Then, under the pressure of powerful social movements, the old ‘New
Deal’ redistributed power and wealth downwards. The ‘New New’ and ‘Green New
Deal’ discussed by Obama, green parties all around the world, and even some
multinationals is more about welfare for corporations than for people.
7. Green Capitalism
won’t challenge the power of those who actually produce most greenhouse gases:
the energy companies, airlines and carmakers, industrial agriculture, but will
simply shower them with more money to help maintain their profit rates by
making small ecological changes that will be too little, too late.
8. Because globally,
working people have lost their power to bargain and demand rights and decent
wages, in a green capitalist setup, wages will probably stagnate or even
decline to offset the rising costs of ‘ecological modernisation’.
9. The ‘green
capitalist state’ will be an authoritarian one. Justified by the threat of
ecological crisis it will ‘manage’ the social unrest that will necessarily grow
from the impoverishment that lies in the wake of rising cost of living (food,
energy, etc.) and falling wages.
10. In green
capitalism, the poor will have to be excluded from consumption, pushed to the
margins, while the wealthy will get to ‘offset’ their continued environmentally
destructive behaviour, shopping and saving the planet at the same time.
11. An authoritarian
state, massive class inequalities, welfare given to corporations: from the
point of view of social and ecological emancipation, green capitalism will be a
disaster that we can never recover from. Today, we have a chance to get beyond
the suicidal madness of constant growth. Tomorrow, by the time we’ve all gotten
used to the new green regime, that chance may be gone.
12. In green
capitalism, there is a danger that established, mainstream environmental groups
will come to play the role that trade unions played in the Fordist era: acting
as safety valves to make sure that demands for social change, that our
collective rage remain within the boundaries set by the needs of capital and
governments.
13. Albert Einstein
defined ‘insanity’ as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.” In the past decade, in spite of Kyoto, not only has the
concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increased – so, too, has
the rate of increase. Do we simply want more of the same? Wouldn’t that be
insane?
14. International
climate agreements promote false solutions that are often more about energy
security than climate change. Far from solving the crisis, emissions trading,
CMD, joint implementation, offsets and soon, all provide a political shield for
the continued production of greenhouse gases with impunity.
15. For many
communities in the global South, these false solutions (agrofuels, ‘green
deserts’, CDM-projects) are by now often a greater threat than climate change
itself.
16. Real solutions to
the climate crisis won’t be dreamt up by governments or corporations. They can
only emerge from below, from globally networked social movements for climate
justice.
17. Such solutions
include: no to free trade, no to privatisation, no to flexible mechanisms. Yes
to food sovereignty, yes to degrowth, yes to radical democracy and to leaving
the resources in the ground.
18. As an emerging
global climate justice movement, we must fight two enemies: on one hand climate
change and the fossilistic capitalism that causes it, and on the other, an
emergent green capitalism that won’t stop it, but will limit our ability to do
so.
19. Of course,
climate change and free trade aren’t the same thing, but: the
Copenhagen-protocol will be a central regulatory instance of green capitalism
just as the WTO was central to neoliberal capitalism. So how to relate to it?
The Danish group KlimaX argues: A good deal is better than no deal – but no
deal is way better than a bad one.
20. The chance that
governments will come up with a ‘good deal’ in Copenhagen is slim to none. Our
aim must therefore be to demand agreement on real solutions. Failing that: to
forget Kyoto, and shut down Copenhagen! (whatever the tactic)
By Tadzio Mueller and
Alexis Passadakis (12/2008). Alexis is a member of attac Germany’s coordinating
council, Tadzio a part of the Turbulence editorial collective (www.turbulence.org.uk).
They are both active in the emerging climate justice movement, and can be
reached at againstgreencapitalism (at) googlemail.com
These Theses were
written in 2008 and all events since their writing have proved the veracity of
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