With 60 thousand people from around the world participating in COP30, there is a growing tension between business community supporters of green capitalism, and the social movements and activists who support eco-socialism as the best way to fight climate change. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more.
00:00With 60,000 people from around the world participating in COP theory, there is a growing tension between
00:07business community supporters of green capitalism and the social movements and activists who
00:13support eco-socialism as the best way to fight climate change. Our correspondent Brian Meir
00:18has more details.
00:20The organizers of the UN Climate Summit underway in Belen are trying to rally everyone behind
00:27the common fight against the climate crisis, but there seem to be unreconcilable differences
00:32among different participants. For example, there are businesses and foundations which they
00:37financially support who argue that corporations are capable of playing a leadership role in
00:43things like the transformation to renewable energy. Many activists disagree.
00:48Large corporations are in bed with governments so that they can take over these negotiations
00:54and use climate crisis as an opportunity to create more money and profit from all the
01:00actions. And we are seeing that instead of democratizing and decolonizing the energy systems,
01:07they are trying to take over. We are seeing the same big companies who have been responsible
01:12for the climate crisis. The big oil, they are now trying to turn green and take over these
01:18sectors. And that's something which is not acceptable. They are coming after our natural resources, our
01:23political minerals, and they are trying to promote green capitalism, and that's what we need
01:27to fight against.
01:28For many of the estimated 30,000 members of the social movements, indigenous nations, and
01:33forest-dweller communities participating in the Alternative People's Summit underway at
01:39Pará Federal University across town, the most effective way to end environmental devastation
01:44is through the transformation to socialism.
01:48The environmental crisis is an expression of the destructive and predatory mode of production
01:55of capitalism. And in our perspective, our perspective is that the fight against the environmental
02:02crisis and the fight for another project for society demands a radical transformation in the mode of production and distribution of wealth in our country.
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