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Let’s run on the premise that this celestial rock we reside on, is the only living planet within the observable universe.\u00a0 Which means we are just a speck in the universe and we are all that we have.\u00a0 Which is more of a reason, why we should care about the planet we live on.\u00a0 Murray Bookchin wrote in Society and Ecology that \u201cThe present generation seems more self-centred, privatized, and mean-spirited by comparison with earlier generations. It lacks the support systems provided by the extended family, community, and a commitment to mutual aid. The encounter of the individual with society seems to occur through cold bureaucratic agencies rather than warm, caring people.\u201d1<\/a>.<\/p>\n We can see this through the very institutions that allow businesses to assault the animal kingdom and governments passing policies that are not in the best interest for our ecology.\u00a0 Like in Japan, that despite a ban on whale hunting since the late 80s are currently using a legal loophole to keep on the eradication of Minke whales as we speak 2<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Federal researchers in the US Northwest and Alaska found that 46,000 seabirds called Common Murres are dying off due to the direct correlation of their food source being killed in warm water temperatures in the region 3<\/a>.\u00a0 The Zoological Society of London reported that there are 7,100 cheetahs remain wild in Africa and in a small area of Iran because of the loss of their habitat.\u00a0 These are among the many examples that are before us.\u00a0 And the cold-blooded culprit that is responsible for this is capitalism.<\/p>\n Herman Daly and John Cobb Jr. wrote in their book, For the Common Good, \u201c…We are living by an ideology of death and accordingly, we are destroying our own humanity and killing the planet…\u201d\u201d5<\/a>.\u00a0 To reinforce this thought, Chris Williams offers the following when it comes to the battle between capitalism and the ecology. \u201cThe rapacity of capitalism knows no bounds…by its very nature is \u201cunbounded\u201d– as soon as a limit or boundary is reached, it must be exceeded…Capitalism forcibly alienates us both from ourselves and our own planet.\u201d6<\/a>.\u00a0 Even the Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, plus former Environmental Advisor to Jimmy Carter, James Gustave Speth said that \u201cThe system of modern capitalism will grow in size and complexity and will generate ever-larger environmental consequences…\u201d7<\/a>.\u00a0 Capitalism has created more of an ecological crisis than any other idea.\u00a0 It cannot solve any of the problems, plus any reform that is put in place is a false solution.\u00a0 If we continue to allow this to happen, then it will keep on the annihilation everything in its path and very species in the animal kingdom are the first to go.\u00a0 Literally the canary in the coal mine.<\/p>\n So it ought to be realistic to demand that we transition out of a capitalism into socialism.\u00a0 If I may go a bit further.\u00a0 It is imperative that we transition into socialism.\u00a0 In socialism, we can achieve ecological harmony, be more ecological responsible versus thinking about profit, and find a suitable practice of mutual aid with the species among us.\u00a0 In order to do that, we need to be protagonists of socialism.\u00a0 To address the woes of capitalism is an aspect of it.\u00a0 But to become real protagonists of socialism, then one needs to be involved in the creation of institutions that are antithetical to our current ones.\u00a0 Though one cannot escape the cautious person that anytime they hear socialism, or want to replace capitalism with socialism\u00a0 is when they automatically think that drastic change is ahead.\u00a0 If anything capitalism was the drastic change when it replaced feudalism.\u00a0 Any transition needs to have a path and no one knows this better than Michael Lebowitz.\u00a0 Lebowitz was the director of Program in Transformative\u00a0 Practice and Human Development at the Centro Internacional Miranda in Venezuela from 2006-2011.<\/p>\n What Lebowitz offers in his book The Socialist Imperative is to provide a space for workers to create their own power.\u00a0 Not social democracy, which has reinforced capitalism 8<\/a>.\u00a0 The creation of a space for workers would also allow the evaluation on how production affects its surrounding ecology, including all species.\u00a0 We could also look at the public policy Bolivia implemented in 2010 titled \u201cLaw of the Rights of Mother Earth\u201d9<\/a>, where from earth to sky the people of Bolivia understand what those rights are and how to defend the Earth.<\/p>\n To build a future worthy of our dreams, which is to have species on our mind.\u00a0 Then we need to become protagonists and announce that socialism is imperative.\u00a0 It will bridge a better relationship between society and species.\u00a0 So let’s end the capitalist system! The time is now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Murray Bookchin, \u201cSociety and Ecology\u201d. January 1993. https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SocietyAndEcology<\/a><\/p>\n 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/24\/world\/japan-minke-whale-333-irpt\/<\/p>\n 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/researchers-warm-pacific-water-led-to-vast-seabird-die-off\/<\/p>\n 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herman E. Daly and John Cobb Jr, For the Common Good<\/em>, p.21<\/p>\n 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Williams, Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, <\/em>p. 299-300<\/p>\n 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/global-warming-and-modern-capitalism\/<\/p>\n 8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Lebowitz, Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now<\/em><\/p>\n 9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, http:\/\/www.worldfuturefund.org\/Projects\/Indicators\/motherearthbolivia.html<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Author: <\/strong>A.J. Segneri<\/p>\n bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n For nearly 20 years, AJ has fought for economic, environmental, and social justice as an artist, academic, activist, community organizer, political strategist and public speaker. He is also affiliated with the R9 Media Collective.\u00a0 You can Follow AJ Segneri on Twitter at: Speaking Truth 2 Power<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s run on the premise that this celestial rock we reside on, is the only living planet within the observable universe.\u00a0 Which means we are just a speck in the universe and we are all that we have.\u00a0 Which is more of a reason, why we should care about the planet we live on.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n<\/h1>\n