Radical leftists clamor for socialism, revolution at 'People’s Climate March'
September 21, 2014
On Sunday, tens of thousands took to the streets in New York City to demand action on climate change, The Blaze reported. One of the actions protesters demanded, naturally, was revolution and an embrace of socialism.
"Capitalism is destroying the planet,” read a sticker on one woman’s shirt. “We need revolution, nothing less.”
Protesters also carried signs calling for socialism. Oliver Darcy said members of the Socialists Workers Party passed out flyers attempting to make “the case for ecosocialism.”
The protest remained peaceful, Darcy said, but appeared to be made up of fringe leftists, some of whom also demanded "justice" for Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot in Ferguson, Missouri, by Officer Darren Wilson. Breitbart.com said protesters also took to the streets in London, and in about 150 countries around the world ahead of a global summit on climate change.
The protest, according to The Daily Caller's Michael Bastach, is supported by hundreds of groups, including SEIU, the Communist Party USA, the Socialist Party USA and various state chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In short, a literal who's who of leftist groups support the protest calling for an end to capitalism.
The Democratic Socialists of America, Ecosocialist Horizons, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Freedom Socialist Party, the International Socialist Organization, Socialist Action and the Socialist Alternative also support the march, Bastach added. Groups representing Jews, Sikhs and Buddhists also support the effort.
The march comes as satellite data indicates there has not been any global warming for some 18 years, Breitbart added. Nevertheless, environmentalists insist "something" must be done.
“The only way that fossil fuel emissions will be phased down rapidly is via an across-the-board fee/tax on carbon emissions," said retired NASA scientist and climate alarmist James Hansen. "That is the way to have an enforceable agreement, because border duties would be collected from countries that do not have the fee, thus providing a strong incentive for them to have their own domestic carbon fee. Therefore I will be marching, along with several grandchildren, with Citizens Climate Lobby, which advocates fee-and-dividend.”
For others, like many who marched in New York, the answer is simpler -- adopt socialism and reject the free market. Those sentiments would echo comments made by U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, who once saidCommunism, especially as it is practiced in China, is the best model for fighting non-existent climate change because democracy allows for debate and a difference of opinion. Political differences, she argued, are "very detrimental" to solving what appears to many to be a non-issue.
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