Earth Day 2019
All Out to Humanize the Natural and Social Environment!
Student planet strike action in Montreal, March 15, 2019.
On Earth Day, April 22, the world comes together to
demand
that proper attention be paid to Mother Earth. Measures must be
taken to overcome the destructive effects of climate change and
end the pernicious practices of the monopolies and oligopolies such
as fracking, clear cutting, detrimental mining methods,
contamination of lakes and oceans, the privatization of water,
fraudulent environmental assessments and the dispossession of the
rightful holders of the land and all the other abuses which are
increasing as a result of neo-liberal anti-social and
anti-national agendas.
The urgent need is to reverse this alarming deleterious
trend.
All over the world this is being done by the peoples' struggles
which restrict and successfully deprive the monopolies and
oligopolies and governments in their service of their ability to
pollute, destroy, super-exploit, trample on the sovereign rights
of Indigenous peoples, and wage war for self-serving aims. The
working peoples' striving for empowerment unites people from all
walks of life to become an organized force which takes stands in
defence of the rights of all.
 On this occasion, the
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) states clearly that the
natural and social environment cannot live in harmony without opposing
government pay-the-rich schemes. CPC(M-L) on this occasion specifically
opposes the use of the serious issues of the environment and the
economy to justify expropriating the Indigenous peoples and going
against the expressed desire of the people on projects such as the
Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline
construction, especially when these are done in the name of "national
interest." This association is to make sure the people play no role in
determining the outcome of the decisions which affect them and so that
the issue of climate change is also not sorted out in favour of
humanizing both the natural and social environments.
There is no Chinese Wall between the interests of the environment and
the economy but they cannot be harmonized by continuing the
expropriation of the Indigenous peoples who 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 Turtle
Island from the indignities of colonial pillage and ruin. On Earth Day
let everyone demand that governments enter into new arrangements that
honour Indigenous peoples' sovereign rights to their ancestral lands.
Mother Earth is one of the two pillars of all social
wealth,
the other being the work of working people. Modern society cannot
be built without consciously upholding the dignity of both.
Harming Mother Earth, working people or Indigenous peoples
leads to the ruin of society.
To uphold the dignity of Mother Earth means to bring
social
consciousness to the fore within the socialized economy.
Activating the human factor/social consciousness to negate the
anti-human factor/anti-consciousness is the order of the day.
Only if working people themselves have a say-so and control over
the production and distribution of social product can the serious
problems facing Mother Earth and our societies be provided with
solutions.
 A significant act on Earth
Day is also to denounce the
U.S.-led wars of aggression and occupation, and the U.S. war
industry which is the biggest polluter in the world. Denounce the
Canadian ruling elite which has deployed the men and women of
Canada's military to participate in the U.S. wars of occupation
and NATO and UN missions carried out in the name of humanitarian
aid, peace, freedom and democracy.
Federal and provincial governments, no matter what party
is in
power, have shown that they fully identify with the narrow stance
of private interests and the demands of the war government in the
United States. To serve these interests and speak about concern
for the environment in the same breath is absurd. It means that
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.
CPC(M-L) supports all the actions of the youth, working
class,
people and Indigenous peoples which restrict the monopolies and
oligopolies in their claims and in their ruinous activities. The
secret agenda of the monopolies, oligopolies and governments in
their service in the socialized economy and for war must cease.
Everything regarding the socialized economy must be public and
exposed for all to see and evaluate. Working people must persist
in stating their concerns and demands, which is the first step to
establishing a real hold on political and economic power so they
can bring to the fore the human factor/social consciousness and
lead the movement to humanize the social and natural
environments.
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.
All Out to Make Our Claims on Society
Known on Earth Day
2019!
All Out to Humanize the Natural and Social
Environment!
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 14 - April 20, 2019
Article Link:
Earth Day 2019: All Out to Humanize the Natural and Social Environment!
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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