Capitalism vs Nature - how can we stop climate chaos?

More than half of England and Wales is officially in drought.

Reservoirs in Somerset, in south west England, are now officially classed as exceptionally low, at only half full. Suffolk, in south east England, has only received 2 percent of its usual average July rainfall this year.

And wildfires rage across Scotland and Suffolk, leaving landscapes scorched. 

It is becoming increasingly hard for politicians to deny the reality of climate change—but some still do.

Tory ex-peer and coal baron Matt Ridley says that the “cult of rewilding” is to blame for wildfires.

The Tory rag, the Telegraph, tells workers to “learn to live with a Mediterranean climate” as the British government reports that 2,877 people died in “heat-associated deaths” in May and June this year.

Burnham has failed to support a just transition with retraining and new jobs for oil and gas workers in renewables. Instead, he wants the taxpayer to prop up a declining industry.

And we’ve seen the disastrous result of putting more money into fossil fuels—rising summer temperatures, burning forests and thousands of deaths.

Capitalism and the ruling class has failed to prevent climate disaster and workers are paying the price.

We need a new system, one that puts people before profit and ends the climate catastrophe.

Join your local Socialist Workers Party meetings to discuss how we can fight for system change, not climate change.