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Is there a Marxist view of climate change?
As the extent of the environmental crisis becomes clear, awareness also grows of the urgency of a sustainable, socialist alternative, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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EXTINCTION REBELLION and the equally impressive school student climate strikes have dramatised for a new generation the enormity of the threat posed by climate change — the tip of the melting iceberg of capitalism’s environmental crisis.  

On the surface, demonstrators are asking for something very simple: formal acknowledgment that a climate emergency exists and real action to tackle it.  

Underlying the demonstrations is something even more important — a recognition that climate change isn’t something incidental that can be tackled with a simple fix, but intrinsic to a broken system.  

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