Special Issue on the Environment
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Revolution #199, April 18, 2010
State of EMERGENCY!
The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution
(Special Issue on the Environment)
Emergency!
This special issue of Revolution focuses on the environmental emergency that now faces humanity and earth’s ecosystems. This emergency has many dimensions:
the destruction and fragmentation of forests and other natural habitats, making the survival of many species of plants and animals impossible;
the acidification, degradation and spreading of dead zones (areas in which there is no life) in oceans;
a great extinction (wiping out) of species on the lands, lakes and rivers, and in the seas;
large-scale pollution and degradation of water, air and soils;
and now, the real threat of unstoppable climate change.
Read on…
The Dimensions of the Environmental Emergency
Snapshots of a Planet in Peril
Humanity and earth’s ecosystems face an environmental emergency. But that phrase doesn’t capture the scope of what we face.
Let’s imagine we are circling our planet by satellite—and then can zoom down to the earth’s surface to see the situation on the ground.
Read on…
Biodiversity, Wilderness and Nature
The Science of Evolution and The Myth of Creationism
Knowing What’s Real—and Why it Matters
by Ardea Skybreak
Something Deeper at Work...
Why Capitalism Cannot Solve
the Environmental Emergency
What Is the Cause of
the Emergency?
Why is the natural environment being destroyed?
Is it simple greed of corporations? Ignorance? “Human nature”? Science itself?
Read on…
A Dirty Little Secret of Capitalism:
The U.S. Military Is One of the World’s Largest Polluters
The Plunder of the Rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia
Communism and Ecology: How Revolution Opens the Way for Humanity to Confront the Environmental Crisis and to Become the Caretakers of the Planet
The only viable way to deal with the crisis of the environment is revolution. The recent message and call from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have, puts it this way:
It is this system that has got us in the situation we’re in today, and keeps us there. And it is through revolution to get rid of this system that we ourselves can bring a much better system into being. The ultimate goal of this revolution is communism: A world where people work and struggle together for the common good...Where everyone contributes whatever they can to society and gets back what they need to live a life worthy of human beings...Where there are no more divisions among people in which some rule over and oppress others, robbing them not only of the means to a decent life but also of knowledge and a means for really understanding, and acting to change, the world.
Read on…
Some Key Principles of
Socialist Sustainable Development
Read on…
Emergency
The Ecosystems of Our Planet—And The Life They Support (Including Us!)—Are In Grave Danger
Centerfold (PDF)
We have outlined the problem, we have shown the cause and we have indicated a viable solution. To those who ask "What now?", we say:
Do the MOST reasonable thing of all: Join in and help bring an end to the capitalist economic and political system that is today the SINGLE BIGGEST OBSTACLE to accomplishing these goals, here and everywhere around the world.
To learn more about how to do this, to get involved in the campaign the party is waging right now to give people an understanding of the revolution we need, and the leadership we have to make that revolution, to make the thinking and action that you are taking, or yearn to take, count for so much more...and for real...get in touch with our party.
The following statement is being distributed by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and many others all around the country.
Read it... and get involved:
The Revolution We Need...
The Leadership We Have
A Message, And A Call, From The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
This system and those who rule over it
are not capable of carrying out
economic development to meet the
needs of the people now, while
balancing that with the needs of
future generations and requirements
of safeguarding the environment.
They care nothing for the rich
diversity of the earth and its species,
for the treasures this contains,
except when and where they can
turn this into profit for themselves...
These people are not fit to be the
caretakers of the earth.
Bob Avakian, Chairman of the
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
From the filmed talk Revolution: Why It’s Necessary,
Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About
PDF
See the complete talk by Bob Avakian —
Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About at revolutiontalk.net and selected clips at YouTube.com/revolutiontalk.
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Three Main Points
What do we in the Revolutionary Communist Party want people to learn from all that is
exposed and revealed in this newspaper?
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"What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these 'outmodeds,' you end up strengthening both."
Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the RCP,USA
From the talk, “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today… And What to Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution”
"In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no 'democracy for all': one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality."
Bob Avakian