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Is the Earth’s climate... the center of the universe and the cause of everything ?
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It is the Earth’s climate that is... the center of the universe and the cause of everything for global anthropogenic warming alarmists !
Is everything the fault of the climate (meaning carbon dioxide, CO2, which supposedly causes "anthropogenic global warming") ? This oft-repeated thesis is considered scientific. And it extends beyond the field of climatology, reaching into physics, geology, geophysics, volcanology, biology, and even history…
Thus, it was the poor management of the climate issue that caused the fall of ancient civilizations.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7854
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7599
But suppose someone were to explain to you that feudalism in France and the monarchy of Louis XVI didn’t fall because of the French Revolution, but solely because of the climate. The same goes for the English monarchy or England’s colonial domination in North America !
As for the resurgence of volcanism, we are told that it is an effect of… climate. This means that it is the heat of the atmosphere that is causing the growth of both old and new volcanoes, both terrestrial and oceanic…
It’s a bit like blaming the hot air above the pan for heating the water inside, while the heat under the pan is caused by the atmosphere !
"Atmosphere ! Atmosphere ! Do I look like I have an atmosphere ?" This is a well-known line from a film that the Earth could adopt verbatim…
Planet Earth is under severe attack from capitalist activity, but pollution isn’t caused by CO2 and climate change ; it’s caused by cadmium, pesticides, chemicals, nuclear power, mercury, nanomaterials, nitrates, phosphates, and heavy metals that contaminate our water and food. And all these pollutants come not from so-called "climate change," but from capitalism !
Even in the atmosphere, pollutants are not carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane (greenhouse gases) but fine particles, lead, exhaust gases from diesel engines, formaldehyde, benzene, asbestos, glues and paints, etc.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_de_l%27air
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4657
It’s high time we put an end to the pretension of pseudo-climate theorists (and fake environmentalists) to control everything in Earth sciences, including volcanism (claiming that volcanoes erupt more often because of climate), seismology (whether earthquakes are influenced by climate or not), plate tectonics, glaciology, geography (asserting that there is an era of anthropogenic climate degradation), paleohistory (not just paleoclimatology), marine and river sciences (which they present as puppets controlled by something called global climate), the study of living organisms (again claiming that climate governs life, while omitting the fact that the reverse is also true and that climate is far from being the only factor in control), the study of the Earth’s mantle and core (claiming that climate determines magma upwelling, etc.), as well as the vagaries of ancient and modern civilizations (the supposed preeminence of climate in their rise and fall, crises and catastrophes)... And we constantly encounter the leitmotif of a single cause : climate change supposedly due to the greenhouse effect, and particularly to human-caused CO2. This assertion, though repeated a billion times, has not gained any scientific validity.
At this stage of the invasion of this topic and the brainwashing it generates, it’s no longer science : it’s pure propaganda ! Especially since its proponents are waging a veritable civil war against anyone who challenges them, who is vilified, denounced, ostracized, banned from publishing and receiving funding, etc. And this climate offensive is perfectly explainable, scientifically speaking (the die-hard supporters of this thesis will, of course, accuse us of conspiracy theorizing, but we could just as easily say that they are the CO2 conspiracy theorists !). It is explained by something entirely different from the actual observations. Especially since, according to these people, whether we observe warming, cooling, many or few changes, they always blame the same supposed phenomenon. However, no direct evidence supports their claims. It’s merely a scientific hypothesis, which can be seriously examined, but it’s not a fact. And that’s the opposite of what they claim !
Molière attributed to the Diafoirus doctors the belief in the single factor "the lung ! the lung ! the lung !" Their current successors constantly shout : "The climate !" or even "the greenhouse effect !" or "CO2 !"
Yes, such a claim to explain everything by climate—from melting glaciers to the crisis of the capitalist system, including hunger, disease, poverty, wars, and migrations—does exist ! We find it every day in the media, in the mouths of governments, politicians, and even people who claim to defend the working class and revolution ! And it’s absurd. Of course, climate plays a role in the lives of living beings, especially human beings, but we mustn’t fall into the trap of the single-factor theory. This doesn’t exist in science, history, sociology, or the study of civilizations. Even class struggle isn’t the sole driving force of history. Climate doesn’t have a single factor, such as temperature. It also requires air pressure, wind, oceans, and so on.
First, let’s remember that "global (Earth-wide) anthropogenic (human-caused) warming caused by the atmosphere and primarily by CO2" is simply a theory, a hypothesis, and not a proven certainty. No calculation can prove that the greenhouse effect in question would be capable of warming the atmosphere to such an extent. The observed warming has been offset by cooling in other areas. The remaining warming is localized in regions where magma rises, mainly in the oceans.
Earth’s volcanism and seismology are primarily driven not by the atmosphere, but by the Earth’s core. And there are many reasons to believe that, far from cooling, the core is actually warming. There is no reason to think that atmospheric warming could heat the core. That would be like believing you can heat the water in a pot by heating the atmosphere above it ! It doesn’t work ! It’s a bit like claiming that atmospheric CO₂ heats… the Sun !
In fact, we know very little about the Earth’s core (hypotheses concerning it, estimates of its temperature, shape, and functioning have changed many times), and we were too quick to dismiss the hypothesis that it is a kind of nuclear power plant capable of heating up and producing energy, not just gradually losing it. No physical law systematically contradicts the formation of such a nuclear power plant at the Earth’s center. This is not enough to prove that the core is heating up, of course. It remains a hypothesis to be verified. On the other hand, the numerous manifestations of very frequent and hot magma rising from the core (volcanoes and earthquakes in particular) strongly suggest it. The extremely rapid changes observed (temperature, shape, movement, magnetism, etc.) in what we can see of the core also suggest it.
The same scientific sources that had rejected the idea of a nuclear power plant in the Earth’s core also claimed that earthquakes, volcanoes, and magma upwellings were not increasing, and we are forced to acknowledge that this is no longer true.
So the climate change fanatics try to backtrack by saying that, yes, it’s increasing, but it’s caused by… the climate. Let’s examine this argument, and first, let’s read it carefully.
https://reporterre.net/Comment-le-changement-climatique-pourrait-reveiller-les-volcans
The first step for anyone seriously investigating the causes of global warming should be to focus on the two primary sources of heat (not the main ones, but the only ones) : the sun and the Earth’s core. Other phenomena are merely ways of conserving or absorbing energy to varying degrees. Only after demonstrating that these two permanent energy sources cannot increase their energy production should one consider a greenhouse effect, that is, an increase in energy conservation. Indeed, proponents of the global warming theory do not seriously study potential increases in energy emitted by the sun or by the Earth’s core.
Another point worth noting is that global warming is not at all a global phenomenon. For example, when global warming is attributed to the melting of sea ice, it is observed that this melting only occurs in areas with underlying volcanoes, and nowhere else. Therefore, the simplest cause of this melting appears to be volcanism, and not a global terrestrial phenomenon that would melt all the ice, not just that in a specific area.
It is not the climate that has caused sea levels to fall (or rise)...
We are told that the temperature rise is global, but the rise in sea levels is not the same everywhere…
The melting of glaciers is not the same everywhere either…
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5443
And when temperatures drop sharply, we are told it’s... because of global warming !
And also that global warming is… not global warming but climate disruption…
https://www.linfodurable.fr/climat/pourquoi-ne-devrait-pas-dire-rechauffement-climatique-50264
But there is also no global deregulation
https://www.climato-realistes.fr/le-dereglement-climatique-lequel/
It has been noted several times that the intergovernmental climate body (which includes scientists) called the IPCC is perfectly capable of making false statements and falsifying data.
"The IPCC took charge of the science of global warming in 1988 with its hypothesis of greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere and will have dramatic consequences for the future of humanity in the near future.
For a long time, scientists—who are not “conspiracy theorists,” and whose voices the environmental lobby refuses to give a platform to—have been challenging this, because nothing proves that CO2 produced by human activity, which, moreover, does not accumulate in the atmosphere, is the cause of global warming. What is certain, however, is that atmospheric warming, which naturally comes from the sun, undoubtedly produces CO2, a gas that is not a pollutant but a gift from heaven ! The global “energy transition” appears, under these conditions, as a monstrous waste of $100 trillion, inspired by an ideology that disregards all scientific rigor, particularly the laws of elementary physics.
https://droit.cairn.info/revue-administration-2022-1-page-91?lang=fr
In fact, the IPCC has introduced anti-scientific concepts which it then manipulates to obtain the desired result, an approach contrary to science.
https://www.climato-realistes.fr/critique-objective-du-concept-de%EF%AC%80et-de-serre/
But that’s a minor detail, because the fundamental scientific approach is flawed. They decided to create a factor : global Earth temperature, which doesn’t exist. Temperature is a local measurement. You can’t average the lava flow from volcanoes with the ocean floor ! And that’s not the only reason this recently invented parameter, which science had never recognized, is invalid.
This lack of scientific rigor deserves an explanation.
What is the goal of climatologists, the goal of governments that dishonestly and deceitfully defend the theory of anthropogenic warming…
Climatology, which had never before been at the forefront of all science, is delighted to be so, to receive unprecedented funding, and to enjoy historically high levels of attention from the public, the media, and governments. Some climatologists say : "There are exaggerations, false statements, a bit stretched compared to reality, but it’s not a big deal because we’ll eventually correct things, and it only underlines that it’s not harmless for society to worsen pollution." That’s what the UN climate expert told me.
But that’s not true : the real pollution of the planet isn’t CO2. Carbon dioxide isn’t a pollutant. It’s the essential element of life ! It doesn’t hinder breathing, otherwise we wouldn’t spend hours in front of a fireplace !
By positioning global warming as the primary risk to the planet and humanity, these people even manage to make people believe that pollution other than CO2 (which is not pollution) is not very dangerous and even that reducing pollution increases warming !
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4268
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4737
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7476
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3894
As for governments, they have multiple reasons for choosing the propaganda of "the planet threatened by global warming," there are several. First, it allows them to minimize all other risks : economic collapse, the risk of war, the nuclear risk from power plants, the risk of industrial pollution, etc.
This allows us to avoid seeing that humanity is threatened with being buried by the policies of the terrified owning classes because their system is historically DEAD ! And that’s why these theories are invading the field of "civilizational collapse" studies. According to them, all societal collapses are primarily based on… the Earth’s climate ! In short, it was the climate that brought down the monarchy and feudalism in France ! And it was also the climate that brought down the Tsar of Russia, then the Russian bourgeoisie, and defeated the imperialist armies attempting to invade Soviet Russia ! From Easter Island to the Mayans, these people have a single interpretation that bears little resemblance to historical reality.
Secondly, instead of blaming the capitalist system of exploitation, these climate alarmist politicians blame… man…
Thirdly, these policies tell the people that if they have to sacrifice themselves, it is to save the planet and humanity !
Fourth, they claim that poor countries and suffering people owe it not to capitalism but… to global warming.
Fifth, this allows two fractions of the population to be pitted against each other on the issue of believing or not believing in global warming, claiming that only the first is scientific and the second is fascist and conspiratorial (what a fine free democratic debate !).
And, thanks to all this commotion, no one is making the basic scientific observations that indicate the Earth’s core has a nuclear power plant that’s heating up ! No one is discussing whether this energy source would explain everything or not. No one is examining the emergency measures for humanity in this situation…
In any case, the issue of global warming has become a political and social issue that directly concerns the proletariat, and the latter is obliged to study the reasoning used by both sides.
The opportunistic far left has aligned itself on this issue with the mainstream left and the trade unions, meaning that it too pretends to have an environmental concern that also feigns opposition to capitalism. On this point as well, there’s no way to count on them to combat official propaganda.
As we have seen in the so-called "migration crisis", "energy crisis", "terrorist crisis" and "covid pandemic", the first victim of the ruling classes is... the truth !
Let us state it loud and clear : the ills of the planet and of humanity stem entirely from the fall of capitalism, which has become a system incapable of functioning and lasting any longer.
They do not originate from CO2, nor from warming, whether anthropogenic or not, nor from the climate…
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It must be said, there is a bias at play : a refusal to see, to hear, to know, to acknowledge the existence of core-level warming in order to claim that there is only atmospheric warming, or climate change, due primarily to CO2 gas. Yet, carbon dioxide is hardly the most obvious candidate to explain volcanoes, earthquakes, and the upwelling of magma and other materials from the Earth’s core ! The propertied classes, whose social system is in advanced decay, held together by mere strings, and whose primary function (private productive investment) is increasingly failing, find it highly advantageous to blame all ills on the criminal known as… climate or CO2, and especially on humankind (accused by the term "anthropogenic") ! Humankind is supposedly responsible for hunger, poverty, migration, wars, racism, and violence of all kinds, and not… capitalism ! The issue of "global warming" is therefore directly related to the fact that revolts and revolutions are spreading throughout the world, and so are counter-revolutions. The climate cause, a false form of environmentalism, is thus exploited by counter-revolutionaries… It is also worth noting that pro-capitalist anti-climate activists don’t mention the Earth’s core at all, nor do their supposed adversaries.
Is there a scientific model that would allow us to think of the Earth’s core as a source of heat and not just as a hot center initially and cooling down ?
In short, do we have serious reasons to believe in the existence of an Earth’s core functioning like a nuclear power plant that produces energy and does not just cool down ?
It has been cooling for 4.5 billion years and is producing increasingly intense surface effects ? We are even told that it is cooling faster than previously thought…
https://www.bbc.com/afrique/monde-60246173
Jean Marc Frenove, energy specialist at Mines Paris Tech, writes :
"There is a gigantic nuclear reaction taking place at the center of the Earth."
https://fr.quora.com/Comment-se-fait-il-que-le-noyau-de-la-terre-reste-chaud-en-permanence
"The decay of uranium-238, thorium-232, and potassium-40, and their decay products such as radium, produces 24 terawatts of power, the equivalent of 24,000 nuclear power plants or twice the amount of energy consumed by humankind."
https://drgoulu.com/2013/11/03/la-radioactivite-naturelle/#.Wtoro586_Z8
Marvin Herndon proposes a theory : the Earth’s core is actually a vast, natural uranium nuclear reactor, 8 km in diameter. Chain reactions of atomic fission, a source of significant heat energy, would occur there. Since 1993, this Californian geophysicist has been developing his audacious idea based on a discovery made in 1972 in Gabon. In mines, French researchers found radioactive elements resulting from natural nuclear fission reactions, not induced ones like those in nuclear power plants. If such a natural phenomenon is possible on the Earth’s surface, why wouldn’t it be possible at its center ?
https://arxiv-org.translate.goog/abs/0707.2850?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=sc
The scientific community largely refutes this hypothesis, arguing that it is "not necessary," or that the conditions for such a "georeactor" to function are far from guaranteed. Rob de Meijer, however, is not so categorical. He even proposes to verify it experimentally.
"All theories about the Earth’s center are just hypotheses," reminds this professor from the University of Groningen (Netherlands). "Herndon’s, like the others, deserves to be explored."
https://arxiv-org.translate.goog/abs/0901.4509?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=sc
Why does the hypothesis of a core being heated by a natural nuclear power plant fit observations better than that of a core being cooled ?
Well, a cooling core would become less and less fluid, more and more solid, no longer changing shape, sending less and less material from the core to the Earth’s surface, not changing its rotation speed, no longer allowing the production of volcanoes, earthquakes, magma upwellings (in the mantle as well as on the surface) etc. and it is quite the opposite that we observe.
As for the theory of the greenhouse effect warming the Earth globally, it doesn’t align with observations. We observe that volcanic and seismic zones are warming while others are not, meaning the warming is not global but local. We also observe that glaciers are warming and melting from below, not from above, from the subsoil and not from the atmosphere—that is, from internal heat and not from heat originating from climate.
Forget greenhouse gases for global warming : these ancient ice cores prove it…
Very old ice cores are raising questions for climatologists.
We observe that volcanic and seismic zones are warming while others are not, indicating that the warming is therefore not global but local. We also observe that glaciers are warming and melting from below, not from above, from the subsoil and not from the atmosphere, thus from internal heat and not from heat of climatic origin.
Scientists, even those who support the greenhouse effect theory, acknowledge that the locally measured warming is too significant to be explained by the greenhouse effect, which only retains a small amount of solar radiation energy. If the greenhouse effect were so effective locally, we could build large power plants simply by constructing… greenhouses to trap atmospheric heat ! Conversely, the energy source currently being developed is geothermal energy, which harnesses heat from the Earth’s core.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4338
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article57
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7336
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5503
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4142
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3234
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article647
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3894
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4657
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1636
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7554
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7711
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5721
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4906
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5529
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5435
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5075
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7568
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3893
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7018
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5565
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3898
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article57
The State is using its "scientists" (technocrats) to deny the rise, which is visible to the naked eye, of earthquakes, volcanoes and ground-level manifestations of subsurface energy coming from the Earth’s core.
https://lactualite.com/sante-et-science/y-a-t-il-de-plus-en-plus-de-seismes/
https://seismologie.be/fr/foire-aux-questions/plus-de-seismes-aujourd-hui-qu-avant
Yes, it is visible to the naked eye that there is more activity underground…
And the scientists themselves say they are astonished…
And when these scientists (actually state officials) can’t deny it, they claim it’s due to… the climate…
Volcanism is not a victim of climate but a major player in Earth’s history…
https://planet-terre.ens-lyon.fr/ressource/volcanisme-histoire-Terre.xml
Sea levels are not solely linked to climate, contrary to what is often claimed…
There is no climate disruption
https://www.climato-realistes.fr/le-dereglement-climatique-lequel/
The Earth is behaving in the opposite way to what the theories of "anthropogenic global warming" predicted.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5382
https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/climatologie-deserts-sont-ils-train-verdir-46864/
https://www.climato-realistes.fr/evolution-du-climat-verites-indesirables/
https://www.lepoint.fr/debats/les-predictions-climatiques-sont-absurdes-08-10-2013-1740365_2.php
https://fr.deepskyclimate.com/blog/what-if-our-climate-models-are-flawed
https://contrepoints.org/les-12-mensonges-du-giec-de-christian-gerondeau/
https://www.science-climat-energie.be/2023/03/30/mathematiquement-le-giec-a-tout-faux/
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?breve198
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5443
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article535
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7877
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article5748
The planet Earth was not initially formed by climate (that is, the atmosphere) but by volcanoes…
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3898
https://www.science-et-vie.com/science-et-culture/notre-espece-sest-forgee-dans-la-plus-grande-eruption-volcanique-de-lhistoire-212277.html
Is it the "climate crisis" that is producing the new world hunger crisis, or is it the crisis of capitalism having reached its ultimate stage ?
A new peak in world hunger is what occurred in 2008, even though the means to produce food for the entire planet’s population have never been greater… in technical terms, but not in terms of social systems. Politicians, the media, governments, and even some scientists blame the climate, incriminating global warming supposedly caused by excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is accused of generating an excessive greenhouse effect and therefore more heat.
So, if we believe them, capitalism isn’t to blame for the current global hunger crisis, but… the climate ! The IPCC (or IPCC in English), an international, governmental rather than scientific body, has just doubled down on this assertion. And, all over the world, they’re trying to convince us that all the current catastrophes—economic, social, and political—from the collapse of economies in South America, Eastern Europe, and Asia, to dictatorships and terrorism, to migrants and the far right, are all due to human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming.
In 2017, global hunger increased for the third consecutive year, according to five United Nations agencies. They blame "climate variability" and consider it one of the "main causes of the world’s severe food crises." In 2017, 821 million people worldwide suffered from chronic food insecurity, compared to 804 million in 2016, and fewer than 793 million in 2007. In ten years, the number of malnutrition victims has increased by 28 million. Coincidentally, the 2008 food riots demonstrated that this year marked a turning point in the resurgence of global famine ! 2008 is the key date of the economic crisis, not the climate crisis ! And the increase continued in 2018… Because the global crisis wasn’t resolved in 2008, but merely postponed by artificial methods which, far from addressing the fundamental issue raised at the beginning of the 2000s, only exacerbated it : the extraordinary amount of floating capital that cannot be invested profitably in production and is instead used for speculation. Indeed, government and central bank aid only increased the available funds and the opportunities to speculate on debt by adding government debt to private debt. It should be noted that the temperature rise claimed by the IPCC did not begin in 2008, and most climatologists see it as a period of temporary temperature decrease…
Is hunger caused by the greenhouse effect and not by the strangling effect of big capital on the people ? We are now told that previous famines were due to slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, but this time, they assert, with their hearts (or rather, their wallets) on their sleeves, that it is not the social and political system that is to blame for the coming deaths from starvation… So they declare capitalism “not guilty,” and we are supposed to take their word for it ?!
Global warming, and its cause CO2, thus becomes the camouflage for capitalism’s new crimes against humanity.
Of course, some might say to us : "But no ! We didn’t say that capitalism and governments aren’t responsible, but only that everyone is, including and first and foremost all individuals who can contribute, through their waste and vehicles in particular, to this carbon dioxide pollution that harms the planet and causes, among other things, hunger, migration, and other disasters."
Are we all therefore guilty of both world hunger and the violence and misery that drive people to migrate en masse ?
On the other hand, the nuclear industry is supposedly virtuous, since it supposedly emits no CO² and has "only" some radioactive waste when it doesn’t have a serious accident like Fukushima. The automotive industry has also supposedly become virtuous, despite Dieselgate, since it’s turning to clean, electric vehicles. As if electric batteries were clean ! As if polluted cities were polluted by carbon dioxide and as if carbon dioxide were the cause of the large number of illnesses and deaths due to air pollution !
This whole climate change charade used to explain the catastrophes of capitalism, including the new global famine, is a massive lie. In fact, climate has nothing to do with it : poor countries suffering from drought are just as affected as countries experiencing storms or those with a moderate climate, and the same is true for so-called emerging countries that are relapsing into economic decline. Those experiencing historic cold spells in the Southern Hemisphere are just as affected as those experiencing hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere !
Both hot and humid and cold and dry are being plundered by corporations, and this has been the case since the catastrophic collapse of capitalism in 2007-2008, but more so than ever before. Formerly colonized countries are on the verge of being recolonized under the pretext of fighting terrorism, with neo-colonial armies taking it upon themselves to intervene constantly, with or without the consent of the country’s leaders.
Is it due to climate change that former colonial countries are once again being plundered, once again victims of wars under various pretexts, supposedly to save the people ? Are these wars, which have destroyed entire countries, which have forced people to flee, to become migrants, rejected here and there, a product of global warming ? Is it CO2 that causes the rise of dictatorships, fascism, and violence of all kinds against the people ?!!!
Emerging countries are not collapsing because of climate change, but because of the global economic crisis. Rich countries are not attacking social rights, healthcare, social welfare, and public services because of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ! Capitalist exploitation is becoming increasingly harsh worldwide, and this is not due to rising temperatures, but to the escalating violence of the owning classes in the class struggle. The global rise in persistent mass unemployment is also not a product of climate change. Half a degree more or less does not cause factories to close, nor does it drive capital toward speculation rather than productive investment !
In fact, the curve of world hunger follows exactly that of the historical crisis of the capitalist system which began in the early 2000s, threatened to produce a global collapse in 2007-2008, and was only delayed, with an increase in all the red lights produced precisely by public actions to avoid, or rather only delay, the definitive fall of the system.
World hunger follows the same trajectory as the economy, investment, unemployment, poverty, health, education, personal security, disease, wars, and terrorism—all products of the same cause : the agony of capitalism, having reached its limits and incapable of going any further and sustaining human society. This is the source of the agony of most of the planet, even if hunger remains marginal in the wealthiest, minority segment.
Even in Europe, the USA, and Japan, hunger is starting to strike again, in the same way that diseases of poverty that had long since disappeared are reappearing.
Capitalist barbarity is striking the entire world, with a face that is not only the far right, violent xenophobic barbarity, interethnic, interreligious, interracial, intergender, intergenerational, and other forms of conflict. It also has the face of resurgent dictatorships, escalating wars, and the resurgence of hunger.
Yes, it is indeed capitalism that produces the increase in hunger. If we have the technical capacity to feed three times the world’s population and yet we don’t feed all of them, it’s because the dominant social system doesn’t allow it. It is the social system that prevents unsold goods from being given to the poorest. It is the social system that mandates the daily burning of food stocks. It is the social system that dictates the accumulation of wealth at one end of the spectrum and misery at the other. And it is the social system, particularly capitalist trusts, that organizes global poverty, even if they try to pull the wool over our eyes with their cloud of carbon dioxide.