Democratic Renewal Is the Order of the Day to Sort Out the Climate Crisis

No Great Wall exists between developing the economy, ensuring a livelihood for all, humanizing the natural environment and overcoming the great damage colonial injustice and imperialist exploitation have wrought. The economy and people can only thrive when the interests of Mother Earth and the rights of all are defended and colonial practices are rejected.

The Indigenous peoples are the stewards and protectors of Turtle Island and holders of sovereign rights to this vast land. The Indigenous peoples have never relinquished their sovereign hereditary rights and bravely continue to defend themselves and Mother Earth from the indignities of colonial pillage and ruin. They and their allies demand these practices be ended and reparations be made for the damage. A modern Canadian economy can only thrive within this overall recognition. Let everyone demand that governments enter into new arrangements that honour the Indigenous peoples' sovereign rights to their ancestral lands.

The Two Great Pillars of Social Wealth

Mother Earth and the work of working people transforming its bounty into means to live and thrive as human beings are the two pillars of all social wealth. Modern society cannot be built without consciously upholding the dignity of both. Harming Mother Earth and working people, and trampling on the rights of the Indigenous peoples and all working people lead to the ruin of society.

To uphold the dignity of Mother Earth means to bring social consciousness to the fore within the socialized economy and in political affairs. It is necessary to activate the human factor/social consciousness in a manner that places the voice of working people themselves in command. By speaking out they begin to take control over the production and distribution of the social product they create through their work so as to sort out the serious problems facing Mother Earth and our societies in a manner which favour the peoples of the world.

Concern for environmental degradation and ruination of Mother Earth must be consciously expanded into a movement to empower the working people, to put them in the forefront of all economic, political and social decision-making. Only in this way can a firm step be taken to humanize the social and natural environment.

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This article was published in

Volume 52 Number 17 - September 23, 2022

Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520172.HTM

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