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ECOSOCIALISM OR BARBARISM

Socialist Resistance no43  |  page 17-18

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ment, while at the same time establishing close links with other environmental movements around the world.

Rather than playing into the hands of Tony Blair and his ilk by allowing them to hold out for an international treaty, we should be demanding urgent unilateral action to reduce Britain's own extraction and consumption of fossil fuels.

That would of course necessitate a massive expansion of energy conservation measures, renewable energy (principally wind and solar,) and public transportation.

It would also require the Scrapping and subsequent reversal of all airport and road expansion plans, and the suppression of all unnecessary • A Socialist Resistance book • Edited by Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone fare.

Socialists Jane Kelly and Sheila Malone have breakdown should be seen as different manifestations of the same structural forces. E8 including postage, cheques with order only. Ecosocialism or Barbarism explains that the twentyfirst century has opened on a catastrophic note, with an unprecedented degree of ecological breakdown and a chaotic world order beset with terror and wargathered together articles from some of the world's leading ecologists and Marxists to discuss how the profoundly interrelated crises of ecology and social I SPECIAL OFFER to Socialist Resistance readers: Send to Socialist Resistance PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU BAR

IS M about climate change deeper into local communities and, most importantly, create the mass mobilisations of people that will be necessary to force the governments hand.

Across the country local activities are needed on the 30th June.

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Scientists at University College London have debunked the government's claims on cutting carbon emissions as wildly unrealistic. In a report commissioned by George Monbiot they say that current and future policies will not only fail to deliver the promised cut of 30 per cent by 2020. In fact, they are unlikely to achieve this before 2050 - 30 years too late! So much for their count www.icount.org.uk

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OUTT now beginning to set their own targets to reduce ghg emissions.

Ken Livingstone recently announced a plan to cut London's by 60 per within 20 years through an average reduction of 4 per cent a year.

This is a welcome and ambitious target. Yet there is a big snag. The figures do not include aviation, which, despite being the fastest growing source of emissions is always excluded from government and business targets (including Kyoto).

However, if the predicted expansion of Heathrow goes ahead, increased flights would slash this 60 per cent target to a mere 20 per cent

So, not surprisingly protests against airport expansion and the aviation industry's 69bn annual tax holiday are growing rapidly.

And in a recent poll 63 per cent of Sun readerts said they were willing to sacrifice a foreign holiday to save the planet So most of us are also willing to change our damaging