Save Climate, surmount Capitalism, stop this Sad-Mad-Dead-Machine!
Ende Gelände 2016
Climate
change is an existentially threatening reality, severely affecting
already many millions all over the world, especially people in the
global south. The droughts and floods, the social and ecological effects
of climate change are always worst for the poor. Exploitation is
intensified and means for subsistence and reproduction in general are
destroyed.
Thus it is not surprising, that climate change is one
of the key drivers behind current migration in Africa and Asia and also
to Europe. The rich countries of the global north are primarily
responsible for global warming as well as for the violent extreme,
deeply anti-democratic extent of global social inequality. Thereby they
are closing their borders with ever higher walls which already have
killed tens of thousands of refugees. To us solidarity means to fight
for the right to stay as well as for the right to go somewhere else.
Nobody should be forced to flee, hence the ongoing destruction of
life-conditions and life-base of people has to be stopped immediately.
The
fossil fuel corporations, who are the biggest polluters, continue with
their business as usual even after a wordy resolution has been adopted
in Paris. The example of coal shows how a few major corporations in
their endless pursuit for profit destroy the life-base of all of us.
Germany
is a very good example for the contradictions of the established
climate politics. After strong civil society movements have fought for
nuclear phase-out and renewable energy, the German government tries to
create the impression to be a paragon of climate protection. Meanwhile
it's doing everything to stimulate economic growth and to save the
profits of big energy corporations, which have been struck before by the
nuclear phase-out. Germany has one of the highest percentages of coal
in its power generation and the highest yield of lignite worldwide. The
growing capacity of renewable energies is not used to shut down coal
power plants but to export more electricity to neighbouring countries.
Even the experts employed by the government say that Germany won't meet
its modest CO2 reduction targets.
Taking climate change seriously
we have to stop burning coal, gas and oil and massively reduce energy
consumption - not in fifty years, but NOW! Though a market-based economy
focusing on profits isn't able to do that. All gains in energy
efficiency have been countered by the endless hunger for growth of
global capitalism. This is why Climate Conferences can state we have to
stay below 1,5°C, nevertheless Carbon Dioxide Emissions are still
rising.
A System that places the pursuit of profit of a few above
protecting the life-base of humanity has to be ended. Trusts and big
corporations won't stop their destructive business, if we don't take
away their ability to continue with it. Big enterprises have to be
socialized, especially the fossil fuel industries. Energy production has
to be decentralized, put under democratic control and transferred to
renewable sources right now. The production in general has to be focused
on human needs, not on profit and permanent growth.
Swedish
company Vattenfall is a good example, showing that nationalization is
not a solution in itself. As one of the “Big Four” energy corporations
in Germany it has made insane profits for too many years with its
lignite mines in Lusatia. Vattenfall was forced to offer its coal-mines
for sale by the green and social democratic parties of the swedish
government. Being Europe's biggest sale of a fossil fuel industry at the
moment, it would allow Vattenfall to get rid of its responsibility for
loss and damage caused by the mining and would very likely even increase
the intensity and range of destruction, since potential investors want
to stay profitable.
We don't accept a business as usual with a
different corporation and demand an immediate stop of the lignite mines.
Vattenfall with all the profits it has earned over decades has to
support a just transition to a different economy in the region. It's our
firm decision: the coal has to stay in the ground.
The struggle
against climate change can only be successful, if we rain on the parade
of capitalist corporations and overcome this misanthropist economic
system. And this is up to us, the people - no government will do it for
us, instead we have to push governments.
In August 2015 over
1.000 people have shown how to do that by occupying the lignite mines in
the Rhineland. From 13th to 16th May 2016 we are becoming the
Investment Risk in Lusatia: Together with a lot of people “Ende Gelände”
will occupy Vattenfall's lignite mines there and bring the sad-mad-dead
machines to a grinding halt.
System change not Climate Change!
Solidarity for ALL !
May,13th-16th: Let's get together for mass disobedient climate action occupying a lignite mine in Lusatia / East Germany!
Find more info on https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/
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