It occurred to me to start with this very popular song by Carlos Gardel that says
that twenty years is nothing. It is to put some music and humor to the nextlines. ---- Very recently we talked about the collapse as something distant intime, however, today, I think I am not mistaken if I affirm that the collapse hasalready begun. We have him in front of our very eyes, perhaps we do not imagineit that way, but reality seems stubborn, it is useless for us to keep looking theother way as if nothing was happening. ---- "It is not an event, but a process.There is no cataclysmic moment that marks the exact second in which the abyssopens under our feet, rather a combination of factors act over a more or lessprolonged period of time and reinforce each other. Rather, the pressing questionis whether we will be able to navigate this process to reach shores of greaterfreedom and solidarity or whether anomie, social breakdown, will open the doorsto a new era of darkness, ignorance, tyranny and genocide." points out MiguelÁngel Pérez in his book Nuevo sindicalismo.When they talk to us about progress, sustainable development, technology, scienceas a magic formula, they hide from us the serious eco-social crisis that iscoming our way. A skyrocketing rise in prices, increasingly depleted publicservices, everything points to increasing social tension and a state incapable ofresolving social conflicts.Scientists and ecologists warn of the disappearance of the Murcian, Valencian andAlmeria orchards, which according to their forecasts will be flooded in the nottoo distant horizon due to the rise in sea level.Barcelona, La Coruña, Vigo, Gijón, Avilés, the Cádiz coast, the eastern coast,the Huelva coast, and the Almería coast will be largely flooded. Some eventsalready point in that direction. The Mediterranean coast will be one of thehardest hit areas.At the end of March, the sand from the Tavernes beaches disappeared, leaving thefoundations of the buildings on the first line exposed. A few months later, thebeaches of Barcelona, and this past August a thermal blowout took the life of ayoung man at the Medusa Festival in Cullera. But these events of damage andadverse atmospheric phenomena are frequent in this area of the Mediterraneancoast and the forecast is that they will increase.Within our territory, the Iberian Peninsula, only some inland areas of northernPortugal, the Cantabrian area and some areas of the Pyrenees and thePre-Pyrenees, will have conditions for life, according to experts. There will bedifficulties planting and harvesting food due to being subjected to extremetemperatures, adverse weather events, rising sea levels, fires and a lack offresh water.In just two decades, the earth we inhabit will become more inhospitable, moreunstable, more difficult. But it will also be the only refuge for life and forthe survival of our species.This past February, the report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) was forceful in its conclusions: «The effects of climate change areintolerable and irreversible. At the current rate of emissions reduction,increased temperatures will pose threats to food production, water supplies,human health, coastal settlements, national economies, and the survival of muchof the natural world." And they will be intolerable, because they will affect themost vulnerable population, which is also the least responsible for this disaster.Migrations will be even more protagonists, because the right to a healthyenvironment is a chimera. According to UNHCR data, since 2008, more than 20million people have been forced to leave their homes due to weather-related causes.Returning to the IPCC report, the policies and commitments of the most pollutingcountries predict that global warming over the next two decades will be farremoved from the goal of not exceeding one and a half degrees. It could reachbetween 2.3ºC and 2.7ºC. A time bomb.Does anyone expect any results, any effective policy on the part of governmentsand international organizations that at this point remedy this disaster that iscoming our way? Neither the 2030 Agenda, nor the COP climate summits, nor thegovernments, nor of course the multinationals, are going to do anything beyondselling us a green capitalism woven from more social gaps and more fortressstates. Business is business.Let's take an example: the electric car. They tell us nothing about the highlypolluting manufacturing process, nor about its batteries, which are even more so,in addition to encouraging neocolonial extractive policies and accentuatinginequalities. Projects such as the Strategic Plan for Economic Recovery andTransformation (PERTE) to promote this "green" market for electric cars, financedwith public funds, hides a succulent business. Not surprisingly, the automobilesector in our country accounts for 11% of GDP and is the second largest carproducer in the EU.The management of our forests, in the hands of private companies. Forestfirefighters working up to 22 hours straight, with minimum wages, withoutadequate material, without training, risking their lives to put out the firesthat devastate them and when things get ugly we call the UME military.It is the time of anarchism. It is urgent to create free, autonomous communities,build food sovereignty, cooperatives, energy communities, a lot of mutual supportand collectivize work. Abolish it, I would say, to deal with what really matters:life.Nothing is invested in prevention. Rural abandonment, the establishment ofmacro-farms, everything goes against protecting the flora and fauna species thatinhabit the territory, or preventing floods, fires and avoiding the advance ofdesertification. Predatory and dominating capitalism.We could give many more examples, but there is no doubt that funds and resourcesare always allocated in favor of private interests instead of strengtheningcollective means beyond pure marketing. In Health, in education, intransportation, in housing, in food, in caring for our environment, in access towater, in basic rights.However, our rulers have not taken long to agree to raise defense budgets byincreasing military spending to 2% of GDP at the last NATO summit in Madrid. Oneof the most lucrative and most polluting sectors in the world, without takinginto account what they call collateral damage, the murder of civilian victims.The planet's resources are finite and the war in Ukraine, although it throws upmore uncertainty, is still one more. There are ten countries that are currentlystill in conflict in the world.Faced with this accelerated panorama, it is convenient to take action beforebeing on the brink of the abyss, because then everything will be more difficult.It is the time of anarchism. It is urgent to create free, autonomous communities,build food sovereignty, cooperatives, energy communities, a lot of mutual supportand collectivize work. Abolish it, I would say, to deal with what really matters:life.Our tools and our principles are the ones that best adapt to a situation like theone posed to us in the not too distant future.When they talk to us about progress, sustainable development, technology, scienceas a magic formula, they hide from us the serious eco-social crisis that iscoming our way. A skyrocketing rise in prices, increasingly depleted publicservices, everything points to increasing social tension and a state incapable ofresolving social conflicts.It is time for us to dare to dream, collectively and with determination. We arenot the only ones. Projects and initiatives of ecovillages, alternativecommunities, collaborative housing, cohausing, etc., which take the leap to builda different life project, more or less removed from capitalism, arise.However, and quoting Vandana Shiva, «the first step for change occurs in ourheads. While our mind is occupied with dominating and colonizing structures, weare giving our silent consent and we are not contributing to buildingalternatives. If we don't change our way of thinking in our daily actions, wesustain the system.https://www.cnt.es/noticias/20-anos-no-es-nada/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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