WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA #22: Climate emergency - Struggles and repression: Statement from the AL/FdCA Struggles and Territory Commission (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

We have no doubt that the causes of the recent "climate emergency" have
a social basis. A society that is based on hierarchical bases, an
expression of class social relations, which extends the dominion of man
over man and nature, cannot help but place the interests of a class
dominated against common interests at the center of its actions. And
these objectives must be supported and pursued by any means, even with
the use of violence and state repression. There is news in recent days
of the arrest of three young people of the "Last Generation" (and they
are not the only ones) for a road block with which they are asking for
the establishment of a "Permanent repair and assistance fund" of 20
billion euros to deal with the damage that several thousand people have
suffered during the latest intense atmospheric events (see Emilia
Romagna and Tuscany). The response that the State implements in response
to these requests is increasingly disproportionate and disorganized:
asking for arrest in flagrante delicto for aggravated private violence
due to a road block says a lot about both the degree of social
repression that this government implements ( on the other hand, the 2023
security decree significantly worsens the already terrible counterpart
of 2018), and on the need to silence those who ask that the climate
disaster be addressed seriously.
Yet not a year goes by without the effects of the climate emergency
being felt: if in summer temperatures far exceed the averages of
previous years, in the autumn heavy rains are the norm and the economic
and social damage is immense.
In particular, in a territory like ours, with a very high population
density, which, from the post-war period onwards, has suffered heavy
speculative attacks through overbuilding and urbanization which has made
it much more fragile in the face of climate changes following the global
warming.
While our cities are going under water with billions of dollars in
damage, the Meloni Government, late in allocating funds for the areas
affected by atmospheric events, is not able to manage the European funds
for the ecological transaction and is pursuing the "stick" policy and
the carrot" by allocating a lot of money to major works (see bridge over
the Strait of Messina).
But the situation is no better internationally. In fact, the
underestimation of the risks of climate change by the world capitalist
powers has blown the last opportunity to have a realistic possibility of
keeping global warming well below two degrees.
An alarming analysis by researchers at Australia's National Center for
Climate Restoration outlines a scenario in which global warming will
exceed three degrees centigrade by 2050, triggering fatal alterations to
the global ecosystem and colossal migrations of at least a billion people.
Everywhere in the world, movements, associations and individuals are
mobilizing to raise awareness among governments and to counteract the
wicked capitalist and predatory choices that will lead to the "point of
no return" for the human race; in Holland for 27 consecutive days
Extinction Rebellion activists, together with thousands of
demonstrators, blocked the A12 motorway in The Hague, to protest against
fossil fuel subsidies. After 1 month of blockades and 9000 arrests among
the demonstrators, the government had to approve a motion for the
progressive reduction of subsidies for energy sources of fossil origin.
We express our solidarity with the young people of the "Last Generation"
who, with courage and putting their own face forward, promote direct
action initiatives that denounce governments' delays in tackling the
climate emergency.
The illusion of infinite growth, the myth of the unstoppable increase in
consumption, the model of large-scale works, the increase in
temperatures and the rise of the oceans are causes and effects of an
economic and social model, the capitalist one, which only produces wars,
exploitation and social emergencies.
Overcoming this model based on the profit of a few, towards a
horizontal, ecological society based on cooperation and social
solidarity are the minimum conditions for emerging from the climate
emergency.

Il Cantiere n. 20 ottobre 2023 ilcantiere@autistici.org

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