A-Infos (en) Italy: FdCA statement - Syracuse G8 on Environment. Against the destruction of the environment for Class struggle and people's self-management

Will our heroes, the great statesmen gathered at the G8 meeting, succeed in managing to 
conciliate profit and environmental protection? ---- Since the days of the first 
industrial revolution, there have been thousands of ecological disasters caused due to the 
thirst for profit. ---- True, in recent years, a greater sensitivity in citizens of the 
Western countries to environmental matters has forced industries to pay more attention to 
ecological matters. Indeed, by means of the perverse cycle of pollute/de-pollute, Capital 
has managed to find new ways to create profit, at everyone's cost. New ecological 
businesses are started in order to clean up particular territories which other businesses 
have polluted, and the percentage represented by this new business of the GDPs of various 
countries is growing by the year. So much so, in fact, that it is almost obligatory now to 
pollute so as not to lose out on this particular slice of the production cake. It is like 
a small-scale reproduction of the great capitalist circus - build and destroy, pollute and 
clean up.

That is the situation here, in the rich West, where there are collective resources to 
direct this way. But in the South of the world, where the proletarian masses are fiercely 
exploited by multinationals and where the first rule of life for the world's disinherited 
is not to die of hunger, Capital only pollutes. There is no money in order to complete the 
circle. So entire countries, entire regions are destined to become open-air dumps, with 
various mafias left to manage them to the detriment of the population, allowing capital, 
businesses, to cut their environmental costs leaving the inhabitants to pay for it with 
their health. Just as they do with the costs involved in ensuring workplace safety. How 
hypocritical, forcing us to choose between work and health, between work and safety, when 
the choice is work or die.

How much empty chatter will there be in Syracuse about probable "post-Kyoto" scenarios, 
when most of the countries who ratified the agreement have gone on to increase their 
emissions instead of reducing them?

How many empty words will be spoken about low-carbon technologies, in a system where wars 
alone produce more carbon dioxide than all the vehicles in several countries put together?

How can they talk about biodiversity, when they are not even able to guarantee a minimum 
for the survival of the millions of people who live on the edges of society? When they 
continue to think of the deaths through starvation of millions of children as a 
physiological but necessary and secondary anomaly of the system? A bitter smile comes to 
the lips when one sees that the last day of the summit is dedicated to the question of 
children's health and the environment...

Once again words, only words, to make themselves look good to the great unwashed. Anyway, 
they know that no-one can force them to keep their promises.

And unless we take our lives back into our own hands, we the workers and the disinherited 
of the whole world, they will go one making fun of us!

Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici
23 April 2009

http://www.fdca.it

The FdCA is participating in the anti-G8 demonstration in Syracuse on 23rd April.


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