Workshop: B162 The climate crisis is a class struggle
Climate jobs, climate justice, and system change
We need to cut emissions, and fast. We need structural change to do so. The Climate Jobs campaigns seek to build bridges between the struggles for climate justice, dignified employment, work security, and democratic access to natural resources by rejecting the pseudo dilemma of jobs versus the environment. In this workshop we will explain what Climate Jobs are and why they are so important.
The climate crisis is a class struggle. Climate science has told us that we need to drastically reduce emissions within a very short time frame.
There is no energy transition taking place within the capitalist neoliberal system. Rather, energy expansion is taking place, with the same companies profiting from both fossil and renewable energy sources over and over again. At the same time, affordable energy is still not a guaranteed resource for all, while many workers lose their jobs under the pretext of the energy transition.
We need to change the way we generate energy, build, move, produce food and much more.
Climate Job campaigns are revolutionary programmes. And they are the only real political programme that presents concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while guaranteeing justice and working-class rights, including the right to secure, decent and fulfilling jobs with fair wages that contribute to the reproduction of humanity on this planet and ensure access to basic services and needs for all.
Info
Day:
2022-08-18
Start time:
10:00
Duration:
01:45
Room:
S102
Organization:
Track:
Ecology and climate justice
Language:
en
