Socio-environmental debates
Youth Mobilize Against the Climate Crisis
The Other Green Wave,
a Powerful Anti-Capitalist Ally Mariano Rosa, coordinator of the Ecosocialist Network
Forty years have passed since the 1st World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979). There, scientists from 50 countries pointed out that alarming trends in relation to climate change made it necessary to act urgently.
novelty, then, but 2019 will go down in history as the year of a qualitative leap in global mobilizations in defense of the planet. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN) of August of this year, titled “Climate change and the Earth” and prepared for the ill-fated COP25 in Chile, highlights the following data:
Since then, the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement have passed, as well as categorical warnings in dozens of other world meetings. These meetings are not the Permanent Revolution
• The consequences of a 1.5ºC warming would be very difficult to mitigate in social terms: intensified climate-driven migrations of 80
