It's becoming difficult to ignore recurring heatwaves, year after year.
Remember that deadly heatwave in France in 2003, with 15,000 deaths,then 5,000 for 2022 according to sources such as INSERM. Then this year,
2025, while summer is still ongoing, workplace deaths are already being
reported at the beginning of July. Heatwaves occur in Europe and other
parts of the world, suggesting that the number of deaths is obviously
higher worldwide. It's this recurrence over a 25-year period that
concerns me. Endangering Others Since the publication of the Meadows
Report in 1972, governments were clearly aware of what was coming. Many
simply ignored it.
The precautionary principle should have guided environmental policies.
As a reminder, destabilizing the levels of gases present in the air is
not trivial. As a reminder, it takes two oxygen atoms for one carbon
atom to produce carbon dioxide. Even if we don't believe in global
warming, it's caused by the increased presence of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, that is, in the air. What will we do when there is no more
oxygen available in the air? Asphyxiation is everyone's destiny. It's
simple and logical.
Certainly, there have been international conferences trying to make
people believe that the world's governments understood the problem and
that they would take measures, often scaled back after the conferences.
When it's not climate-sceptic governments who slam the door, fail to
implement the resolutions they signed, and sometimes even turn on the
oil tap.
They are all guilty of negligence, all of them, at all times, and across
all political leanings.
It's not with announcements that go unanswered, with the truth right in
front of the victims of heatwaves, that anything will change. Quite the
contrary, some MPs want to put a stop to renewable energy.
When you know about a phenomenon, an action, and participate in it with
full knowledge of its deadly effects, that's called endangering others.
The criminals are money and capitalism, governments!
Almost everything has been said above. The economic growth freaks, the
personal enrichment freaks, the capitalism that supports consumerism at
all costs, the super-rich. Governments, all governments, whether
capitalist or state capitalist. All this to our detriment, at the cost
of our lives.
This need to keep capitalism going as long as it can work, as long as
the planet endures it, as long as people sweat and die in silence. It's
criminal.
Moreover, who benefits from capitalism? A handful of people compared to
the world's population.
Another possibility
A change in society is necessary if we want to survive, we and future
generations. Throwing out capitalism and governments is imperative.
Without allowing a return to capitalism or governments, reform is not
possible, because, by its very nature, capitalism is part of the
problem, and governments, even ecological ones, are untrustworthy and
would ultimately reintroduce capitalism. Moreover, capitalism and
governments are also responsible for many other forms of deadly effects.
An end to capitalism doesn't mean a return to the Stone Age; it's
something that governments and capitalism have successfully implanted in
the minds of some.
It will be a matter of managing what can be produced without impacting
the environment. And conducting research to replace what is necessary
with production that has no impact at all.
Producing solid, repairable objects that could last for decades.
Detoxing from consumer society and its false promises of happiness.
It's obvious that we must provide everyone with a comfortable standard
of living, housing, and affordable food.
Limiting travel by plane and car.
A society that manages itself, free from malicious and incompetent
subjugation. If we don't establish such a society, we will suffer again
and again. Not to mention the nonsense that capitalism and governments
are still capable of inventing so that we all disappear from the face of
the Earth.
Self-management is something to be practiced, to be experienced, and
through research, practice, improvement, reflection, and
experimentation. Progress is our destiny.
Certainly, we see it today: governments are authoritarian and do not
hesitate to repress very harshly anyone who wants a libertarian,
anti-capitalist, self-managed society. It is not possible to compromise
with any government, to demand reforms that will never come or that will
be abolished by other governments, as we are seeing around the world
today. Our inaction condemns us; our survival is at stake. This deserves
more than just reflection. There is no way around it; we will have to
change our society and how it operates.
Frédéric CLERE
Commune de Paris Group
https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8464
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