Jeremy Corbyn: Climate Crisis Is a Class Issue
In a column for Jacobin, Jeremy Corbyn writes that we need class politics to transform our economies and save humanity from climate apocalypse. There’s no other way.
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a rally in June 2021. (Chris J Ratcliffe / Getty Images)
The UN secretary-general declaring climate scientists’ report a “code red for humanity” is a critical warning.
The evidence in this week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report speaks for itself: the hottest five years in recent history, tripling rises in sea levels, and the global retreat of glaciers and sea ice.
But it is also nothing significantly new. Scientists are taking an urgent tone because they have been making the same warnings for decades — while serious action on our warming world has failed to materialize.
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