WHEN: April 3rd, 2014 7:00PM - 8:30PM
WHERE: Rochester Community TV Inc., 21 Gorham Street, Rochester, NY
We live in a world facing environmental destruction from global warming, yet the world’s leaders seem incapable of admitting there’s a problem, let alone acting upon it. Instead, governments push their energy corporations to dig up and burn fossil fuels at ever increasing rates.
Now the race is on worldwide to exploit the filthiest deposits of hydrocarbons, like the tar sands of western Canada or oil shale in Colorado, and squeeze every last bit of profit from vast corporate-owned “reserves”, regardless of the ecological consequences.
Of course environmental activists must mobilize to oppose these developments, whether it’s the Keystone XL pipeline or the expansion of hydrofracking in the Marcellus shale.
But it’s clear that, with its core logic of constant “growth” and profits above all else, the real problem is the way the capitalist system itself works. This leads us to a stark conclusion: if we want preserve a living environment on this planet, we have to get rid of capitalism.
How do we begin the process of mobilizing the people of the world to take power and policy into their own hands, and out of the grasp of the corporate elite leading us toward destruction? Join us as we explore why being an environmental activist is not enough--you should be an ecosocialist.
WHERE: Rochester Community TV Inc., 21 Gorham Street, Rochester, NY
We live in a world facing environmental destruction from global warming, yet the world’s leaders seem incapable of admitting there’s a problem, let alone acting upon it. Instead, governments push their energy corporations to dig up and burn fossil fuels at ever increasing rates.
Now the race is on worldwide to exploit the filthiest deposits of hydrocarbons, like the tar sands of western Canada or oil shale in Colorado, and squeeze every last bit of profit from vast corporate-owned “reserves”, regardless of the ecological consequences.
Of course environmental activists must mobilize to oppose these developments, whether it’s the Keystone XL pipeline or the expansion of hydrofracking in the Marcellus shale.
But it’s clear that, with its core logic of constant “growth” and profits above all else, the real problem is the way the capitalist system itself works. This leads us to a stark conclusion: if we want preserve a living environment on this planet, we have to get rid of capitalism.
How do we begin the process of mobilizing the people of the world to take power and policy into their own hands, and out of the grasp of the corporate elite leading us toward destruction? Join us as we explore why being an environmental activist is not enough--you should be an ecosocialist.
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