12일 세계노총이 성명 <기후변화와 기만>을 발표했다.
성명은 <매년 전세계에서 벌어지는 산불을 두고 있었던 <기후변화>논쟁이 올해에도 시작됐다. 부르주아칼럼니스트와 과학자들은 홍수, 큰불을 비롯한 모든 종류의 자연재해에 대해 정부와 기업의 책임은 은폐하면서 우리에게 책임이 있다고 한다>고 지적했다.
이어서 <숲등지에서의 큰불은 특히 세대를 이어 생명활동이 벌어지는 곳에서 언제나 있어왔다. 하지만 부르주아들은 <인간에 의한 기후변화>를 운운하며 보편적인 인간의 활동이 기후변화의 주요요인이라고 말한다>라며 <개개의 사람들에게 기후변화의 책임을 묻는것은 고의적인 발상이다>고 비판했다.
계속해서 <과학적인 수단과 첨단기술을 동원해 우리는 과학적인 토론과 논쟁을 광범위하고 심도있게 벌였다>라며 <수많은 추측과 예측이 존재한다. 우리는 예측과 관해서 신중한 입장이지만, 기후변화에 대해 절망적이지도, 그렇다고 <아무일도 아니다>는 입장도 아니다.>고 밝혔다.
그에 대해서 <많은 설문조사결과와 통계수치들이 독과점기업, 자본가들 그리고 제국주의연합세력에 의해 마련됐기 때문이다>라면서도 <어떤 경우라도 이에 관한 토론과 투쟁은 열린 장이다>고 말했다.
끝으로 <세계노총과 국제노동계급은 모든 노동자들이 자기지역, 자기나라, 자기대륙과 세계에서 자연과 환경을 보호하는데 관심을 갖게 하도록 매일 투쟁할것이다>라며 <우리는 강, 숲, 바다, 산, 공기, 동식물을 파괴하는 독과점들에 의한 범죄에 대항할것이다. 우리는 반드시 드러나있거나 드러나지 않은 자본가들의 기만을 고발하고 말것이다>고 강조했다.
다음은 전문이다.
| On the occasion of the wildfires that occur every year worldwide, a wide debate has opened around the so-called climate change and its tackling, also this year. According to bourgeois columnists and scientists, it is responsible for floods, fires, and all kinds of natural disasters, hiding the responsibilities of governments and business interests behind it. Fires have always been occurring, especially in large forests, as part of the life cycle and the regeneration of the forest itself. But this is not enough to justify the same phenomenon in the same parts of the world. They talk about “anthropogenic climate change” and show that the main factor is human activity in general. The logic of individual responsibility is deliberately cultivated here as well. But the only factor that can really contribute to or accelerate the climate change is the very action of monopolies , capitalism itself. For example they mark the plastic water bottles as responsible for the pollution at sea and try to leave out the No. 1 responsible for marine pollution, which is of course none other than the shipping companies. We follow the scientific debate and conflicting views on both the extent, depth of the problem, the development rates of these changes, and the scientific tools for accurately identifying them. There are divergent estimates and predictions. We are also wary of predictions that either tend to be catastrophic or complacent, of “nothing is going on”. Because many of these surveys are funded and the data are presented according to the interests of large groups of monopolies, capitalist states and imperialist associations that often construct them according to their hierarchies and aspirations for where they want to “push” capitalist production in order to displace their competitors. Within a week 6,900 wildfires were observed in Angola and 3,400 in R.D. Congo. In these parts of the world, in contrast to Europe, why is there not the same mechanism of support between states, or vice versa in Europe that exists, with what purpose is it used? For the protection of the people and their property or in any case the response is in line with the dominant business interests. The answer is deeper and needs collective study by the class oriented trade-union movement. According to our opinion the cause and the differentiation is in the use of the land. In the mineral-rich African region, forests are “unnecessary” for multinationals to build their mines, so fires are extinguished by themselves when they encounter a river or sea, in Europe the wildfires “are needed” as much as hotels can be built, but also not to destroy the beauty that will attract tourists. In any case, this debate and struggle is open and the representatives of the class oriented trade union movement participate in it responsibly, highlighting the popular interests that are coincided with the real rescue and protection of the environment, revealing that business groups and environmental protection are incompatible concepts, that only a society in which the natural wealth will belong to the people can ensure the protection of the environment. The WFTU and the international trade union movement have to give daily struggle to increase the concern and interest of all workers for the protection of the natural environment in their region, in their country, in their continent and worldwide. To repel the crimes of the monopolies against the rivers, the forests, the sea, the mountains, the air, the flora and the fauna. We must expose the hypocritical interest of the capitalist states, which ostensibly sometimes agree and sometimes withdraw from international treaties that remain in words and papers. Only the struggle of the workers and the masses will protect the environment at all levels. |