"Nature will not wait for politicians"

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President Joe Biden opened a virtual climate summit on Thursday, Thursday 22nd attended by 40 other world leaders, with a view to putting the United States at the center of the global effort to address the climate crisis, he pledged to reduce emissions of carbon by 52% by 2050.

In his keynote address to the summit, Biden laid out his vision for a “greener economy” in which climate change “is taken seriously in all sectors and creates more jobs for workers.”

With a total of 40 international leaders, including Russian Vladimir Putin and Chinese Xi Jinping, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday celebrated the commitments made at the US-led climate summit as a point of departure. inflection to protect the environment, but urged immediate action, declaring that “nature will not wait for politicians.”

The assertions of the President of the United Nations are true, however despite the promises of politicians, the climate crisis will not be solved by the governments and companies that caused it, the solution must come from the hands of the working class, indigenous peoples and scientists.

Biden, although supporters have described him as a follower of the “Green New Deal” -which seeks a “green transition” within the framework of capitalism and does not go beyond certain policies and regulations-, the reality is that once secured the presidency, pointed out that, although a transition away from oil and gas was needed, couldn’t get rid of fossil fuels for long.

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Xi Jinping, Leader of the Top Greenhouse Gas Emitting Nation announced that China “will reach the emissions cap in 2030 and neutrality in 2060”, although he did not anticipate any concrete measure on how he intends to achieve it, his speech prioritized is the continuity of the business of large companies, “reducing” their polluting practices to that can continue to generate profits.

Meanwhile the denier Jair Bolsonaro cynically vowed to end deforestation in the Amazon By 2030, forgetting that his government decreed the opening to the extractive industry and agribusiness, disparaging the scientific warnings and the indigenous peoples at the beginning of his mandate.

The reason for this is the financing that Biden himself has announced of 10 billion dollars to help preserve the Amazon, a figure that far exceeds the budget of the Ministry of the Environment of Brazil in recent years, that is why in your participation, Bolsonaro made a lying speech and omitted important data on environmental preservation policies and the fight against deforestation in Brazilian forests.

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On the other hand, in his morning conference, the president of Mexico, López Obrador proposed to promote a massive reforestation plan, through the government support of Sembrando Vida, which spreads throughout southern Mexico and Central America “to combat climate change, create jobs” and thus curb the migration problem, This program is not a real measure for the climate crisis as it focuses on agricultural productivity and not on the restoration of ecosystems.

In turn, this program has been denounced by environmental organizations in Mexico since 2019, since Sembrando Vida does not have forest restoration as a priority objective and neither does reforestation, but rather focuses on the productivity of the land.. Therefore, it cannot be considered as an environmental policy in Mexico, one of the 10 countries with the highest levels of deforestation, according to the NGO Forest Watch.

Youth leaders like Greta Thunberg, the Mexican Xiye Bastida and the Colombian Francisco Javier Vera called not only to promise commitments, but to carry out real actions to stop the climate crisis, which will mostly affect future generations.

The summit will continue this Friday, April 23, where it is expected that agreements will be finalized with world leaders for actions to mitigate climate change. Joe Biden since his election campaign had promised to put the environmental issue as the main axis of his government. However, its promises are far from being sufficient to stop the climate crisis, of which its effects are increasingly evident, affecting the most vulnerable sectors.

The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved without changing the system. In 2019, the Fridays For Future movement demonstrated this in part, mobilizing millions of people around the world, adding to vast social sectors who have begun to question the way out of this challenge, which will not come from politicians or politicians. big capitalists.

To conquer these demands, the movements against the climate crisis must unite with the working class, which, together with scientists and indigenous peoples, are capable of operating a planned economy that is capable of making humans relate in a rational way to the environment. environment.