Workers Unite! Greta Calls for End to West’s ‘Oppressive, Racist Capitalist System’
“We need to change everything because right now our current system is on a collision course with the future of humanity and the future of our civilization.”
Forget climate change for just a moment (if you haven’t already). Greta Thunberg says the world faces an even bigger threat from an economic system.
The dewy-eyed activist, nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, announced Sunday she wants an end to the West’s free-market capitalist system which she blames for “imperialism, oppression, genocide… racist, oppressive extractionism.”
Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at the London Literary Festival where she launched her new book, Thunberg says the world’s current “normal” – dictated by the people voted into power – has failed.
She further blames capitalism’s “failure” for global “climate breakdown” that can only be redressed by a radical revolution by the people, for the people. She declared:
We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.
Thunberg added: “If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.”
In other news:
The avg coal power plant generates 4,000 GWh electricity/yr. A giant wind turbine in high wind area does 1.7 GWh/y 2,400 giant wind turbines needed for every coal plant Biden closes. That would be an environmental disaster. Reject the #GreenNewDeal