ECOSOCIALISM for EXISTENTIAL ECOLOGICAL EXISTENCE

In a previous posting

https://csloh.substack.com/p/existential-ecological-extinction?sd=pf -

on Existential Ecological Extinction, I have explored the numerous and variety of threats to Malaysia biodiversity ecological system not only to the loggings in the Nenggiri permanent forest reserve in Gua Musang without prior public consultations, but linked the contemporary case to previous capitalism rapacious destructions of various pristine forestry and carnage of  economic landscape in the country: whether it's the Bukit Merah/Lynas rare earth episodes or extractive copper and gold minings - and their respective pollutant outflows as in Sabah and Pahang. 

Not only should eco-activists have to approach the environmental issues, and the resolution of the ecological problems, from a mere deforestation or climatic changing perspectives but also to understand the geoeconomic parameters of intrusive monopoly-capital within a geopolitical neo-imperialism dimension.

This deeper understanding is a necessity because with the discovery of more rare earth elements found in Kedah that is worth RM62 billion  (freemalaysiatoday 03/12/2020)
and that this industry would likely attract transnational corporations exploitation - and surplus value expropriations - of more than RM$100 billion value in other national resources extraction, it is only relevant, and consistently appropriate, that wider and wholesome progressive thoughts be spread and permeated among the New Generation on the precarious nature of our tanah-ku.


Capitalism lays on a principle of endless economic growth driven by its reproduction and consumption. Industrial agriculture – rubber, oilpalm, sugarcane, coffee, soya – is shaped by capitalism with the sole capital accumulation on pursuit of profit and interests gained, contributing externalities to deforestation, pollution and biodiversity loss.

It is the small minority of the human population –the top 1% of households globally owning 43% of all personal wealth while the bottom 50% have only 1% – who are causing the vast majority of the damage upon the effects of climate calamity and consequential biodiversity collapse that are overwhelming felt by the poorest people on planet earth.

It is from this outlook like in:

https://firesstorms.wordpress.com/2021/01/04/economy-ecology-and-ecosocialism/

and other articulations like

https://malaysianewleft.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/capitalism-confronts-ecological-existence/

that the presentation - in an edition of Rupture, Ireland’s eco-socialist quarterly by Paul Murphy and Jess Spear - is worth a reading as they explore and explain the ECOSOCIALISM concept in a broader vantage point:

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth - wherein

latest IPCC reports had made it abundantly clear that the “window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all” is “rapidly closing”. Either, according to Myrphy and Spear, "the Capitalinian, the first geological age of the Anthropocene, will be brought to a close by ecosocialist revolution, or it will bring humanity into a new dark age. And, it is increasingly easy to foresee what will happen if we don’t take rapid action: more famine, floods, drought, and super storms as well as new pandemics; war, as imperialist states and their allies clash over access to dwindling resources; and, deepening authoritarianism as those who can avoid catastrophe for now seek to insulate themselves from the crisis surrounding them. Never has it been more clear that we face a choice between socialism and barbarism."

I have archived this article in

https://fire2storm.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/the-necessity-of-ecosocialist-degrowth/

for those interested to follow through as there are embedded references and graphics therein.