Climate protest.Pixabay/ niekverlaan. Some rights reserved.Climate change, and its attendant injustices, cannot be tackled without fundamentally challenging the economic system. A system that serves the interests of – and has been shaped and perpetuated by – the richest and most powerful. This includes a trading system that is exploitative of people and of the planet, and which was formed on the basis of a far-from-level playing field.
For decades now, the neoliberal status quo of unfettered markets, and the unholy trinity of privatisation, liberalisation and deregulation, has been accepted as an almost incontrovertible norm for the big political parties. A norm in which the interests of multinational corporations comes firmly before the interests of the people. And which has arguably placed a stranglehold on transformative political change.
Now, at a point in time when much change is on the cards, from the UK’s impending-Brexit to the chilling election of Donald Trump in the US, we face huge challenges. But in the interests of justice, equality, ecological sustainability and peace, we must meet them.
