Ecosocialists Believe the Only Way to Stop Climate Change Is to Abandon Capitalism: “We have the technology to rapidly switch to a world that runs on carbon-free energy, but that won’t happen in the current structure because it doesn’t benefit those already at the top.”

A couple years back I was watching a documentary about post soviet Russia and there was this one elderly gentleman whom the camera crew interviewed. They were talking about this and that and came to the topic of ecology and that guy was like "let me show you something". So they drive up to that place where´s a well. The guy lowers the bucket into the well, brings it back up and fills the "water" into his moped. Starts it. Runs just fine. So he continues with the story. Says during soviet times there was for some thirty years an air base nearby and that it was common practice to pour the kerosine just out the base (not sure why one would that, it`s not like kerosine goes bad does it?). So for 30 years they were doing this with the effect that the groundwater is so rich with kerosine that that fella can just fuel up his 25ccm machine with it.

That's just one story. The ecological legacy of the Soviet Union is desastrous. Take the nuclear powered subs that lay on the ground of the Baltic Sea as well as the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Take the Aral Lake which used to be the fourth largest on the planet... Socialism/ communism was a shit system- for the planet and even more so for the people.

So... whatever these oh so progressive hipster-eco-commies are saying, socialism won´t save the world.

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