1. The pace of action is slower than the rate of breakdown
2. Fossil fuel companies are embedded in the COP process
3. Gas development in Africa is “fossil fuel colonialism”
4. The West/Global North is still failing to support the Global South, prioritising war instead
5. Progress depends on countries raising and exceeding existing targets
6. The Inflation Reduction Act is an America First carbon reduction plan
7. The climate struggle is a class struggle
We need an alliance between the working class movements in the Global North with countries in the Global South demanding reparations and a recognition that socialist countries are part of the solution and this has to be forged in the struggle.
As COP27 approaches, the US is taking inadequate action to reduce carbon emissions, in Britain a new Tory government will backtrack on the current feeble plans, and the Global North is failing to honour its commitments to aid the Global South tackle climate change.
China has overperformed on renewable energy development goals in the last three Five Year Plans (FYP). Already, ambitious implementation of the current FYP at the local level is boosting overperformance at the national level.
With an unprecedented heatwave this Summer people are beginning to wake up and smell the smoke.
The climate and labour movements have a common interest in linking the climate and cost of living crises.
The penny is beginning to drop in some sections of the mainstream left in the West that if China forges ahead with decarbonisation, while the USA mires itself into doubling down on fossil fuels, then China will be leading the global effort to save humanity.
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