#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL - Heat wave: develop collective anger rather than fear and despondency (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 One more extreme climatic event... These last heat waves follow that of 2003,

then those of 2019. But this year it was consecutively in June and then again in
July that the 40 degree mark was exceeded in metropolitan France. Something that
is about to become normal, even before summer! And already this month of May 2022
has been the hottest recorded in the territory. Heat to which are added episodes
of late frosts and devastating hail which have serious consequences on crops.
Drought is widespread, extreme in some places (less than 100mm of precipitation
since the beginning of the year). ---- Obviously, France is not the only one
concerned: giant fires in Australia, Greece, Spain, etc., drought in Italy, herds
of cows decimated by the heat in the United States...

In the countries of the South, which are overwhelmingly agricultural or pastoral,
the situation is even more catastrophic. Somalia, for example, has been in a
state of emergency since November, and is experiencing its worst water shortage
in 40 years. Currently, in the month of May alone, the number of people displaced
by drought stands at 33,000 in Somalia and could in total exceed one and a half
million over the entire crisis period, i.e. 10% of the country's population!

We are taking the brunt of the consequences of climate change, which has been
anticipated for more than 30 years.

Contrary feelings
Faced with this situation, we are alone with our feelings, which are often
contrary. We have the impression that we are not doing enough individually, the
media and political powers not missing an opportunity to encourage us "to small
gestures" and individual action, maintaining in us a strong feeling of guilt.
Even though in reality it is the proletarians who pay the price: schools become
saunas, some not even having shaded areas in the playground; in poorly insulated
or poorly designed accommodation, we wait for the end of the heat wave at more
than 30 degrees inside; in the workplace, conditions become unbearable.

Fear also mixes with dejection: how to thwart such a long, complex and
large-scale process?

There are culprits
The Libertarian Communist Union wishes to recall that the first culprits are to
be found among those who maintain the capitalist system: the capitalists
themselves of course, but also the States and institutions which reinforce them
and do nothing to correct the situation. The culprits are the Bolloré, Lafarge,
Total and others who continue to plunder the resources of the planet, and it is
the Macron, Hollande, Sarkozy and all the others who facilitate their task. The
culprits are also Bayer, Limagrain, Danone and the agro-food industry as a whole,
which are monopolizing land, developing treeless agriculture by taking the
monopoly of water.

Inconsequential institutions
Even as we go straight into the wall, the concreting continues at the same
staggering pace, we are expanding the airports, the peripherals. In cities, town
halls welcome the rare green spaces that are not enough to lower the temperature.
Water-intensive sectors, which we can do without, still benefit from subsidies
when market gardeners are unable to sow due to lack of water. And "at the same
time", the "transition" only reinforces the agro-industrial model which has done
so much damage to the land and to the people who cultivate it through the
creation of giant water retention basins and industrial methanizers subsidized.
And in the midst of all this, global greenhouse gas emissions are still not going
down.

The necessary collective anger
In the midst of this devastation and distress, popular resistance exists. The
fact is that all environmental advances have been obtained through struggle: the
abandonment of the airport project in Notre Dame-des-Landes, the planned ban on
glyphosate, the surf park project in Saint-Père-en Retz , stopping GMOs...

In the face of contempt, we must transform our feelings of fear and despondency
into collective anger, strengthen the struggles of today and build those of
tomorrow. More than ever before, we must form a common front with all the
political, union and association forces that take stock of the historical
challenge facing our class. We need to build a balance of power capable of
preventing the capitalists from harming the environment any longer, on which our
living conditions depend. Our ecological horizon is a triple revolution: that of
production methods, that of lifestyles as well as that of exchanges.

Finally, we support all the workers who will exercise their right of withdrawal
and express our solidarity with all those who suffer the consequences of this
heat wave at work and at home.

Libertarian Communist Union, July 15, 2022

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Canicule-developper-une-colere-collective-plutot-que-la-peur-et-l-abattement-9670
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