A-Infos (en) Brazil, Capixaba, FACA: Capitalism and the Foretold Ecological Collapse (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The alarming data released this year by the World Meteorological 
Organization-overheating seas, 1.4 million people displaced by extreme 
weather events in the Pacific, 10% of the oceans suffocated by heat 
waves-are not mere natural accidents. They are the tangible result, the 
terminal symptom, of a death machine called capitalism. This system, 
founded on the infinite accumulation of profit, is intrinsically 
predatory. It transforms everything-forests, oceans, the atmosphere 
itself-into a commodity to be exploited until exhaustion. The logic of 
perpetual growth, indispensable to capital, is biologically impossible 
on a finite planet. Uncontrolled emissions, insane resource extraction, 
and rampant industrial pollution are not flaws of the system, but its 
essential modus operandi. Record sea temperatures are the thermometer 
calibrated by corporate greed.

The tragedy in the Pacific, with millions forced from their lands by 
intensifying cyclones and rising seas, exposes the brutal face of the 
environmental colonialism inherent in globalized capitalism. Island 
nations and coastal communities, which have historically contributed the 
least to carbon emissions, are the first and most violently hit. 
Meanwhile, fossil fuel megacorporations and industrialized states, the 
primary culprits of climate chaos, continue to profit obscenely and 
finance new exploitations. The system protects its agents and transfers 
the human and ecological cost to the most vulnerable, the "disposable" 
of the Global South. Mass displacement is not a side effect; it is the 
planned externalization of the cost of capitalist accumulation.

The dangerous illusion of "green capitalism" or "sustainable 
development" is just another cog in the machine of destruction. These 
are false market solutions-carbon credits, monopoly-controlled "clean" 
energy, and miraculous technologies-that serve to keep the structures of 
power and accumulation intact. They don't question the fundamental need 
for endless expansion and unbridled consumption; they simply try to 
greenwash the same unsustainable model, creating new sources of profit 
while the planet continues to burn. The cyclones ravaging Southwest Asia 
won't be contained by solar panels sold by megacorporations. This is a 
smokescreen to perpetuate control and postpone necessary radical action.

Faced with this reality, it is insane to believe that reforms within the 
capitalist system can halt the catastrophe. Meaningful climate action 
requires the immediate dismantling of the fossil fuel industry, an end 
to unnecessary commodity production, a profound redistribution of 
wealth, and a radical reorganization of life around community and 
ecological needs, not profit. Capitalism, by its very nature, is 
incapable of achieving this. It understands only the language of growth 
and exploitation. Therefore, the true ecological struggle is, 
inevitably, a revolutionary anti-capitalist struggle. Defending the 
Earth means attacking the roots of the power that destroys it: the State 
that protects it and the capital that devours it.

The only hope lies in direct action, in the autonomous organization of 
communities, in mass disobedience, and in the construction of horizontal 
and libertarian alternatives now. We must sabotage the machines of 
destruction-from gas pipelines to mining companies-and create zones of 
resistance and autonomy where life, not profit, is the supreme value.

The destruction of capitalism is not a vengeful desire; it is an 
absolute ecological necessity, the prerequisite for any chance of 
collective survival on this planet. The 1.4 million displaced people in 
the Pacific are today's victims. If we do not destroy the machine that 
crushes them, we will all be tomorrow's victims. The Earth does not 
negotiate; it rebels. Either we rebel with it, abolishing capitalism, or 
we perish with it.

Federação Anarquista Capixaba - FACA

https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/18/capitalismo-e-o-colapso-ecologico-anunciado/
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