Try this one but check the reference material before judging. If you would prefer not to check the reference material, there is no point in reading the article. I respect your wishes and your friendship and your intelligence, but I thought you were willing to read another point of view.

Enough [person].  My point is what makes it worth my time to spend time hearing what this person has to say.  I see none.

As I have said on numerous occasions, I strongly believe that the old environmental movement which was based on good stewardship of our natural resources and the reduction of artificial man-made pollutants has been infiltrated by Marxists and Communists for the sole purpose of seeking funding for their political agenda and to use our own laws against us; primarily to facilitate the collapse of our capitalist society from within so that it may be replaced by a Marxist-driven new world order. <Source>

West Coast Regional Conference  2009

Climate Catastrophe and Social Change:  an Eco-Socialist Perspective

Sponsors and participating organizations:

Capitalism Nature Socialism, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Global Citizen Center, Green Party of Alameda County, International Socialist Organization, KPFA radio, Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, Socialist Action, Solidarity, West County Toxics Coalition, Women of Color Resource Center

Every region of the earth needs to face the coming dislocations of our ecologies, our economies, and our public health that global climate change is bringing. The crisis provides the greatest evidence that capitalism has failed. A socialist perspective can provide a necessary analysis of the roots of the problem. We call upon socialists, environmental activists, and working class organizations to come together to study the science, share experiences on physical mitigation and the social fight back, and to discuss the likelihood that only a socialist transformation, an extreme concentration of people power, can stop capitalism from killing the planet.

Some of the people and  programs …

Cuba’s Experience

William “Zeke” Grader, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, executive director of the non-profit Institute for Fisheries Resources; California advisor to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

The Science of Global Climate Change

Larry Shoup, self-employed historian and Cuba solidarity activist; taught at a number of universities and is the author of three books and numerous magazine articles; currently working on Rulers and Rebels, a book on the history of class struggle in California

Capitalism and Soil Degradation, Destruction and Formation

Joel Kovel, editor in chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism; founding member of the Ecosocialist International Net­work; author of The Enemy of Nature; with Michael Lowy, promulgated the Ecosocialist Manifesto in 2001

[Source: See for yourself the presenters and their credentials as well as some of the subjects that will be discussed.] 

Excerpts from the …

Global Warming Report to March 2008 NC [National Committee]

We make a mistake if we look at global warming by itself, separate from other crucial environmental problems, separate from issues of economics, social justice, and capitalism.

The climate change challenge leaves only three options: Mitigation (to reduce the causes) Adaptation (to adjust to the adverse affects), and Human suffering. The less mitigation and adaptation we do and the longer we delay, the more human suffering will occur. 

We Cant Profit Our Way to a Solution Much discussion of global warming blames individual consumption, and most of the solutions proposed are market solutions like the various cap-and-trade schemes, or technological fixes that will supposedly magically save us. 

We cant wait for socialism before we take action on global warming. We need a mix of governmental laws, steps that involve the market, and steps that take us past a strictly market approach. We may find some temporary allies among capitalists who expect to make money from producing solar panels, for example, even as we recognize that fundamental solutions require socialism.

This doesn't mean that Communists become advocates of profit. However, we have to be realistic about how immediate action can happen in the U.S.

There are direct human costs of capitalism, rooted in the exploitation of human labor for profit, but there are also serious environmental costs. Capitalist production, agriculture, and distribution exploit the natural resources we depend on, in an ever-speedier race to catastrophe.

We need more than minor adjustments. We need fundamental reconstruction of industry, to utilize energy more efficiently, to capture waste energy, to prevent the creation of pollution, and to use renewable energy to the maximum extent possible. We need major reorganization of our transportation systems, so that trains are used for transporting goods rather than trucks, so that affordable hybrid and electric cars are manufactured, so that mass transit is funded over more highway construction, and so that fewer goods are transported around the world in service of the cheapest wages and highest short-term profits.

Others blame population increases as the root of the problem. While restraining population increases is part of a comprehensive program, if we cut the population but continue the same economic and production systems, the crises will still happen.

Sometimes environmental problems are explained using gross averages, which conceal as much as they reveal. Comparing the carbon footprint of people in different countries conceals huge class differentials in both energy use and decision-making power. Averaging my personal energy footprint with that of Bill Gates or Donald Trump doesn't provide much useful information, but can be used to blame everyone for causing problems that only capitalists are responsible for.

In any class-divided society, the rich and powerful use their wealth and power to escape the consequences of any crisis. They place the blame and burden on workers and poor people. They profit from human suffering. They have vested interests in continuing to profit from business-as-usual.

Solutions which ignore the class divisions in society can at best only postpone the worst impacts of global warming and of an unsustainable economic system. 

The Environmental Movement solving the environmental problems confronting humanity requires broad-based, majority movements. Environmental issues connect to issues of class and race, poverty, working class power, democracy, public policy, taxation, private property rights, and many others. Part of our job is to learn and teach these connections, and to organize multi-issue coalitions which can tackle them.

Like other major problems, environmental challenges cannot be met without ending the Iraq War, because otherwise the necessary funds will not be available.

Unions are beginning to address global warming, beginning to resist attempts to place the burden of the crisis on the backs of their members and other working people, holding conferences and participating in coalitions.

There is more cooperation between unions and environmental groups, including projects such as the Apollo Alliance. The Blue-Green Alliance between the Sierra Club and the Steelworkers Union, has an advanced program to create green jobs that has already influenced the election debate.

Some environmentalists condemn the labor movement and workers in general for being backward at tackling climate change. They see workers as part of the problem, rather than seeing that workers are essential to the solutions we need.

They see changes in the climate but not political changes in mass consciousness. The working class, in the U.S. and also internationally, is the only force with the potential power to create the fundamental changes we need, the only force capable of wresting power from the corporations and wealthy.

Cuba is a beacon of environmental change. With changes already underway in agriculture, transportation, recycling, oil use, etc., Cuba provides ample proof of the potential of socialism to transform the human relationship with the natural environment. Cuba also provides evidence that the necessary changes are possible, because they have already made many of those changes.

The cooperation between Cuba and Venezuela, and between Cuba and China, are examples of ways around the world market by barter and exchange that provide real solutions rather than maximum private profit.

Our Party can help win our international movement to understand this issue. While some parties are developing a global climate change program, many do not yet even acknowledge the existence of this issue as one they need to address. Our example, by focusing on environmental crises and movements, by engaging in ideological, programmatic, and practical efforts, can be an important part of winning the international Communist movement to a better understanding of and involvement in this struggle.
What this means for the work of Communists It is a mistake to think that understanding and acting on environmental problems can be left to someone else.

But the reality is that whatever struggles we are already involved in have an environmental side, and these aspects are increasing in importance.
Environmental issues are part of most major electoral battles, and will play bigger roles in the future.

Other aspects of our role include getting our organizations to include tackling global warming and other environmental demands in their programs, explaining the links between environmental issues and other issues to the people we work with, explaining the ways in which the capitalist system is ultimately unable to solve global warming, and building coalitions that include environmental organizations and demands.

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