Earth Day 2024
All Out to Humanize the Natural and Social Environment!
Montreal, Earth Day 2023
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
On
Earth Day, the peoples of the world come together to demand
proper
attention be paid to Mother Earth and denounce the reality that
their
concerns are not being met. The more environmental disasters
occur, the
more disinformation pours from the official circles in the
United
States, Britain,
Canada, the European countries and others which represent the
global
elite. They attempt to give the impression they are taking
measures to
bring the climate crisis under control while in fact increasing
the
number of damaging pay-the-rich schemes and other self-serving
practices, all the while
spouting the high ideal of "greening the economy."
On the occasion of Earth Day 2024, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) salutes the youth and working people of this country and the peoples all over the world who are organizing to restrict and deprive the monopolies and oligopolies, and governments in their service of their ability to pollute, destroy, wage wars, exploit, criminalize and deprive the people of their right to a say over all matters which affect their lives. They trample the sovereign rights of all countries and seek to deprive the Indigenous Peoples of treaty and hereditary rights.
CPC(M-L) recognizes the gravity of the situation facing humankind as a result of the climate crisis. Canadians, Quebeckers and the Indigenous Peoples are held hostage to the self-serving government policies which cause serious harm to the natural and social environment. Taking care of Mother Earth is a priority; opposing government pay-the-rich schemes is a necessity.
It is the striving for empowerment of working people from all walks of life which is life-giving. The natural and social environment cannot be humanized without opposing the stranglehold of the oligopolies over government decision-making and their rule which is causing so much harm around the world.
CPC(M-L) denounces the ruling elite for marketing self-serving plans in the name of "greening the economy." It is a fact that technical and scientific innovations demand new infrastructures and processes of production. However, the schemes the government is financing are not discussed with the people. On the contrary, the new normal is to force their approval before anything is known about them. Police powers are used to impose them in the name of national security, prosperity and meeting crucial goals to curb pollution but the degradation of the land, water and sea levels continues as does the harm to flora and fauna and humankind.
Governments
continue their relentless defence of companies whose
pursuit of private profit endangers the workers and the public
and
dispossesses the Indigenous Peoples while causing grave harm to
Mother
Earth. Despite lofty proclamations, they continue to expropriate
Indigenous Peoples, trample
on their land and attempt to silence the thousands of Canadians
and
Quebeckers opposing specific projects such as the Trans Mountain
Pipeline and the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline construction,
deforestation, deregulation of railways and all the ways harm is
brought to the natural environment.
The creation of alternative forms of energy which do not involve fossil fuels is necessary but such alternatives can themselves be very polluting. Such things can be brought under control but the support for the approach of making a quick buck on the latest invention or acquiring government subsidies in the billions of dollars is opportunist and harmful. New technologies are here to stay. How they are used and for what purpose is a matter which must be brought under the control of the working class and people, not benefit narrow private interests which have taken over government decision-making.
Already, forest fires and disasters as a result of the privatization of government responsibilities are threatening the lives of a large number of people this year. People must work collectively themselves to realize their striving to stay the hand of the elites and hold them to account to overcome the disasters taking place as a result of the climate crisis and pernicious practices of the ruling elite. These include fracking, clear cutting, detrimental mining methods, contamination of rivers, lakes and oceans, the privatization of water, fraudulent environmental assessments, decrees which disempower municipal levels of government and keep them underfunded, privatization of roads and highways, refusal to implement tried and true practices which protect communities and homes from devastating forest fires, permits for real estate developers to build where it is unsafe, refusal to penalize polluters whose practices cause serious harm to air and water quality, dispossession of the rightful holders and stewards of the land, wars of aggression and occupations, cutbacks of public servants and much more related to the destruction of civil society.
All of this must end! All of it underscores the urgency of raising the demand for the renewal of the political process to empower the people. Concern for environmental degradation and ruination of Mother Earth must be consciously expanded into a political movement to empower the working people, to put them in the forefront of all economic, political, social and cultural decision-making. The people must become the decision-makers and set the direction of the economy in a manner that protects the environment and affirms the right to be of the peoples of the entire world. Only in this way can a firm step be taken to humanize the natural and social environment.
On Earth Day 2024, All Out to Humanize the Natural and Social Environment!
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 27 - April 20 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/MS54271.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca Email: editor@cpcml.ca