Environment – Connolly Youth Movement

Wildfires rage across Europe as Ireland records hottest weather in two centuries

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Ireland experienced its highest recorded temperature in two centuries on Monday (18 July). The Met Éireann station in Phoenix Park recorded a temperature of 33℃, only 0.3℃ cooler than the temperature recorded at Kilkenny Castle in 1855. While many were able to enjoy the sunshine, the extreme heat poses a life-threatening danger to vulnerable people. […]

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No, a Pandemic is Not Good for the Environment

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Some are calling the crisis a ‘cleanse’ of the planet, that because it disproportionately affects older people, it’s the Earth’s revenge against ‘boomers’ and that humanity really needed to ‘check itself’ or let the planet breathe.

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Climate Conspiracies – Paid For by Big Business

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The state intervention required to avoid a complete climate catastrophe, such as enforcing reduced energy consumption, the rejection of the fossil fuel industry and better management of natural resources, are all fundamentally incompatible with laissez faire, free market principles.

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Europe is the Final Nail for Irish Farmers

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If we oppose the destruction of the Amazon, how can we support an institution like the EU, that is able to encourage it’s destruction whilst giving the impression that it is eco-friendly. This will only continue the narrative that China, India or the global south are massive polluters and need to become more green like Europe. We are simply exporting the climate guilt of European people and placing it upon post-colonial nations.

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Thanos, Attenborough, Sanger, Hitler and Climate Change – A Brief History of ‘Over-Population’

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Does our environmental salvation come in the form of one child policies, the end of famine relief or our own coerced sterilisation?

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Dialectics of Climate Science – Liberalism vs. Marxism

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Only by rejecting liberalism and basing our understanding on historical materialism and the experience of the masses (and manifesting this in concrete organisational forms) can Varadkar’s ludicrous carbon tax give way to the democratic ownership of the economy.

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System Change, Not Climate Change

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We need a change of system. A system not based on the pursuit of profit but an economy organised on the basis of sustainability and the needs of the population.

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Capitalist Climate Crisis – Forward #29

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Billions from Koch Brothers & ExxonMobil – Corporations behind climate change denial.
The racist history of the ‘over-population’ myth; One Child Policy, Racial Hygiene, David Attenborough, & Marvel’s Thanos.
Europe is the Final Nail for Irish Farmers: ‘Capitalists in South America will only have more reason to rape the Amazon to increase their output’.
Dialectics of Climate Science – Liberalism vs Marxism

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5 Reasons Capitalism is the Biggest Barrier to Tackling Climate Change

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There has been no attempt to end the system of never ending consumption, because capitalism needs to continuously grow to sustain itself.

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The Failure of Environmentalist Politics

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Capitalists will not act in the interests of all of humanity because it would mean acting against profit. Capitalists cannot act on the benefit of the earth because it means they would lose profit, and could potentially lose power to other capitalists. In order to maintain power, Capitalists will always put the interest of the company first.

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